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Scarface and the Untouchable

Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago

Scarface and the Untouchable( )
Author: Collins, Max Allan
Schwartz, A. Brad
ISBN:978-0-06-244194-2
Publication Date:Aug 2018
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint:Mariner Books
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $29.99
Book Description:

The new definitive history of gangster-era Chicago-a landmark work that is as riveting as a thriller. 

A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year

"Gripping. ... Reads like a novel." --Chicago

"Revolutionizes our understanding of Al Capone and Eliot Ness." --Matthew Pearl

In 1929, thirty-year-old gangster Al Capone ruled both Chicago's underworld and its corrupt government. To a public who scorned Prohibition, "Scarface" became a local...
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Book Details
Pages:736
Detailed Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Criminals & Outlaws
Social Science / Criminology
Biography & Autobiography / General
True Crime / Organized Crime
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6 x 9 x 1.72 Inches
Book Weight:2.2 Pounds
Author Biography
Collins, Max Allan (Author)
Max Allen Collins was born in 1948 in Muscatine, Iowa. He is a two-time winner of the Private Eye Writer's of America's Shamus Award for his Nathaniel Heller historical thrillers "True Detective" and "Stolen Away". Collins also wrote the Dick Tracy comic strip begining in 1977 and ending in the early 1990s. He has contributed to a number of other comics, including Batman. Collins created his first independent feature film, Mommy, following a nightmarish experience as screenwriter on the cable movie The Expert.

Collins has been contracted by DC Comics to write three tie-ins to his critically acclaimed graphic novel "The Road to Perdition", which was adapted into the feature film. Author of other such move tie-in bestsellers as "In the Line of Fire" and "Air Force One", he is also the screenwriter/director of the cult favorite suspense films "Mommie" and "Mommie's Day".

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