Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago
By Max Allan Collins and A. Brad Schwartz
Read by Max Allan Collins, A. Brad Schwartz, and Stefan Rudnicki
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ISBN: 9781538552148
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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.
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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.
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Author Bio: Max Allan Collins
Max Allan Collins is the author of Road to Perdition, the acclaimed graphic novel that inspired the movie, and of the multiple-award-winning Nathan Heller series of historical hardboiled mysteries. One of most prolific and popular authors working in the field today, he was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 2017. He is also the literary executor of Mickey Spillane.
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| Available Formats : | CD, MP3 CD |
| Category: | Nonfiction/True Crime |
| Runtime: | 18.58 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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