Wonderful Years, Wonderful Years — George V. Higgins

He was a big-league Bay State contractor who hired ex-cons, operated on the raw edge of the law, and knew a secret that could blow the lid off a long-hidden political scandal. Or so Justice Department prosecutors thought when they began building a case of bribery and political blackmail against self-made Boston millionaire Ken Farley. But the government's clandestine probe into Farley's private life would suddenly turn innocent people into victims of a relentless justice - and backfire in a nightmare of bad blood and blind ambition.