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‘Most Wanted’ by Thomas Foley

By Chuck Leddy

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  May 09, 2012

If you want to understand shoe-leather police investigation at its best, pick up “Most Wanted.” For two decades, Thomas Foley, a former head of the Massachusetts State Police, pursued Whitey Bulger’s mob from the bottom up, following the money trail and tracing multiple murders right to Bulger’s door, only to discover that the biggest obstacle to his efforts had not been Bulger but an FBI so in bed with mobster that it needed to undermine Foley’s investigation to protect itself.

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