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Author:

Collins, Max Allan, author.

Title:

Scarface and the untouchable : Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the battle for Chicago / Max Allan Collins, A. Brad Schwartz.

Edition:

First Edition.

Publisher:

William Morrowan imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xix, 699 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Subject:

Capone, Al,--1899-1947.
Ness, Eliot.
Gangsters--Chicago--Chicago--Biography.
Organized crime--Chicago--Chicago--History--20th century.
Crime--Chicago.--Chicago.
Biographies.
True crime stories.

Other Authors:

Schwartz, A. Brad (Austin Bradley), author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 565-674) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Untouchable truth -- Map: Organized crime in 1920s Chicago -- Rogues' gallery -- Prologue: St. Valentine's Day -- Prairie Avenue boys -- Citizen Capone -- On the spot -- Epilogue: The great American city.

Summary:

"A THRILLING MAGNUM OPUS ON AMERICA'S GREAT CRIME EPIC. A Mystery Writers of America "Grand Master"--author of the gangster classic Road to Perdition, long-time Dick Tracy writer, and multiple Shamus Award winner--teams with an acclaimed rising young historian, in this riveting, myth-shattering dual portrait of Al Capone, America's most notorious gangster, and Eliot Ness, the legendary Prohibition agent whose extraordinary investigative work crippled his organization. Written with novelistic pacing and underpinned by groundbreaking research, Max Allan Collins and A. Brad Schwartz's Scarface and the Untouchable delivers--at last--the definitive account of the "Battle for Chicago," the iconic struggle between the mythic yet real combatants who have captivated the world for 90 years"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0062441957
9780062441959
0062441949
9780062441942

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1042077150

LCCN:

2018024767

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