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TITLE:
Scarface and the untouchable : Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the battle for Chicago / Max Allan Collins, A. Brad Schwartz.
Alternate Title:
Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the battle for Chicago
Publication Date:
2018
Publication Information:
New York : William Morrow,
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
xix, 699 p. : ill.
Additional Contributors:
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
A thrillilng magum opus on Almerica's 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.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780062441942