MY BUDDY crime novel
Kevin Weeks and Phyllis Karas
Joey Donahue is on parole, unable to leave Rhode Island, yet he can’t make a living because no one will hire him. When he is offered a big score he is too desperate to pass it up. Except the deal is a sting by FBI. Joey is now facing serious prison time for violating parole as well as for his criminal activity—unless he helps FBI Agent John Murphy find the notorious killer Francis “Buddy” Whalen—#2 on the FBI’s Most Wanted List, and on the lam for the last fifteen years—whose freedom has been tormenting the feds.
My Buddy takes the reader from the mobbed-up streets of Providence, Rhode Island to San Diego, Florida, the Caribbean, Rio, Rome, and Amsterdam, as Whalen as his girlfriend manage to stay one step ahead of the his old partner. But Joey and Murphy manage to make decent team, once they realize that their skills complement each other’s despite their personal animosity. Their intense dislike for each other turns to grudging respect as the long-cold trail starts to get warm again, and Joey knows he’s going to face a showdown where he will either kill…or be killed.
My Buddy takes the reader from the mobbed-up streets of Providence, Rhode Island to San Diego, Florida, the Caribbean, Rio, Rome, and Amsterdam, as Whalen as his girlfriend manage to stay one step ahead of the his old partner. But Joey and Murphy manage to make decent team, once they realize that their skills complement each other’s despite their personal animosity. Their intense dislike for each other turns to grudging respect as the long-cold trail starts to get warm again, and Joey knows he’s going to face a showdown where he will either kill…or be killed.
Kevin Weeks spent over twenty years working with Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger, and spent six years in prison on five murder charges. His cooperation with the FBI and the Massachusetts State Police helped put Bulger associate Stevie Flemmi and crooked FBI agent John Connolly behind bars. Weeks told his story in his bestselling autobiography, Brutal, published by HarperCollins. Weeks now works construction for a living.
Phyllis Karas is the New York Times bestselling co-author of Brutal with Kevin Weeks, a frequent contributor to People magazine, and teaches journalism at Boston University. This is their first novel.
