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03378aam a22004338i 4500 001 4CDD63A6AA6F11EC998F19923AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230204011525 008 150817s2015 nyuaf b 001 0beng 020 $a 1410485218 020 $a 9781410485212 035 $a (OCoLC)898529435 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BTCTA $d BDX $d YDXCP $d GK8 $d WIM $d LF3 $d CDX $d OCLCF $d GZD $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Urschel, Joe, $e author. 245 14 $a The year of fear : $b Machine Gun Kelly and the manhunt that changed the nation / $c Joe Urschel. 250 $a large print edition. 263 $a 1509 264 1 $a Thorndike, ME : $b Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, $c 2015. 300 $a xi, 495 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-274) and index. 520 $a "It's 1933 and Prohibition has given rise to the American gangster--now infamous names like Bonnie and Clyde and John Dillinger. Bank robberies at gunpoint are commonplace and kidnapping for ransom is the scourge of a lawless nation. With local cops unauthorized to cross state lines in pursuit and no national police force, safety for kidnappers is just a short trip on back roads they know well from their bootlegging days. Gangster George "Machine Gun" Kelly and his wife, Kathryn, are some of the most celebrated criminals of the Great Depression. With gin-running operations facing extinction and bank vaults with dwindling stores of cash, Kelly sets his sights on the easy-money racket of kidnapping. His target: rich oilman, Charles Urschel. Enter J. Edgar Hoover, a desperate Justice Department bureaucrat who badly needs a successful prosecution to impress the new administration and save his job. Hoover's agents are given the sole authority to chase kidnappers across state lines and when Kelly bungles the snatch job, Hoover senses his big opportunity. What follows is a thrilling 20,000 mile chase over the back roads of Depression-era America, crossing 16 state lines, and generating headlines across America along the way--a historical mystery/thriller for the ages. Joe Urschel's The Year of Fear is a thrilling true crime story of gangsters and lawmen and how an obscure federal bureaucrat used this now legendary kidnapping case to launch the FBI"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a George and Kathryn go to work -- A massacre in Kansas City -- The Kidnapping Scourge -- The Abduction -- Welcome to Paradise -- The Delivery -- The Manhunt -- Catching Kelly -- The Kellys' Trial -- The G-men Take the Spotlight -- Alcatraz and the Irredeemables. 600 10 $a Kelly, Machine Gun, $d 1897-1954. 650 0 $a Criminals $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Outlaws $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Crime $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Law enforcement $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 651 0 $a United States $x History $y 1933-1945. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a True crime stories. $2 lcgft 941 $a 4 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240710030849.0 952 $l UGPF911 $d 20231207014454.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231020020317.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012023148.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4CDD63A6AA6F11EC998F19923AECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search