Gerard O'Neill's journalism career was spent at The Boston Globe, where he started in 1966, eventually becoming editor of The Boston Globe Spotlight Team, one of the nation's top investigative teams. He retired in 2001, having received many honors, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Hancock Award and the Loeb Award. He has co-authored The Underboss: the Rise and Fall of a Mafia Family (1989) and Black Mass: the Irish Mob, the FBI, and a Devil's Deal His new book is Rogues and Redeemers: When Politics Was King in Irish Boston, the story of the nearly century-long Irish control of the city's politics.
