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White Devil Bob Halloran

White Devil von Bob Halloran

White Devil Bob Halloran


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White Devil: The True Story of the First White Asian Crime Boss Bob Halloran

The amazing true story of the only white man to rise to the top of the Chinese mafia. In August 2013, Bac Guai John Willis, also known as the White Devil because of his notorious ferocity, was sentenced to 20 years for drug trafficking and money laundering. Willis, according to prosecutors, was the kingpin, organizer and leader of a vast conspiracy, all within the legendarily insular and vicious Chinese mafia. It started when John Willis was 16 years old ...his life seemed hopeless. His father had abandoned his family years earlier, his older brother had just died of a heart attack, and his mother was dying. John was alone, sleeping on the floor of his deceased brother's home. Desperate, John reached out to Woping, a young Chinese man Willis had rescued from a bar fight weeks before. Woping literally picks him up off the street, taking him home to live among his own brothers and sisters. Soon, Willis is accompanying Woping to meet his Chinese mobster friends, and starts working for them. Journalist Bob Halloran tells the tale of John Willis, aka White Devil, the only white man to ever rise through the ranks in the Chinese mafia. Willis began as an enforcer, riding around with other gang members to encourage people to pay their debts. He soon graduated to even more dangerous work as a full-fledged gang member, barely escaping with his life on several occasions. As a white man navigating an otherwise exclusively Asian world, Willis was at first an interesting anomaly, but his ruthless devotion to his adopted culture eventually led to him emerging as a leader. He organized his own gang of co-conspirators and began an extremely lucrative criminal venture selling tens of thousands of oxycodone pills. A year-long FBI investigation brought him down, and John pleaded guilty to save the love of his life from prosecution. He has no regrets. White Devil explores the workings of the Chinese mafia, and he speaks frankly about his relationships with other gang members, the crimes he committed, and why he'll never rat out any of his brothers to the cops. Told to Halloran from Willis's prison cell, White Devil is a shocking portrait of a man who was allowed access into a secret world, and who is paying the price for his hardened life.

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An eye-opening look at the inner workings of a larger-than-life criminal figure. --Publisher's Weekly Bob Halloran's White Devil opens with a bang and doesn't let up. Halloran's in-your-face narrative, honest and straightforward, packs power and punch, not to mention the elegance and integrity of old-school, gumshoe reporting. The book is daring and dangerous, full of that gritty, no-nonsense, take-no-prisoners storytelling found in any classic Boston crime book. Open White Devil and enter the hell Halloran has created with this incredible ... haunting read. --M. William Phelps, New York Times bestselling author

Über Bob Halloran

Bob Halloran is a news and sports anchor at WCVB-TV, the ABC affiliate in Boston. His television career includes stops in Providence, Rhode Island, FOX-25 in Boston, and ESPN, where he also wrote for ESPN.com. He was awarded a New England Emmy Award for sportscasting, as well as two honors from the Associated Press. Bob was born in Houston, TX, and grew up in Middletown, NJ. He graduated from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, VA with a BA in Journalism. Bob is married with four children.

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GOR010055099
9781940363790
1940363799
White Devil: The True Story of the First White Asian Crime Boss Bob Halloran
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BenBella Books
20160112
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