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The new definitive history of gangster-era Chicago–a landmark work that is as enthralling as a thriller. Now featuring a another preface, plus 115 photographs and a diagram of gangland Chicago.

A Chicago Public Bone up on Best Book of the Year

“Gripping. ... Reads like a novel.” —Chicago

“Revolutionizes our knowhow of Al Capone and Eliot Ness." —Matthew Pearl

In 1929, thirty-year-old gangster Al Scarface ruled both Chicago's underworld and spoil corrupt government. To a public who scorned Prohibition, "Scarface" became a neighbourhood hero and national celebrity. But afterwards the brutal St. Valentine's Day Bloodshed transformed Capone into "Public Enemy Few One," the federal government found be thinking about unlikely new hero in a twenty-seven-year-old Prohibition agent named Eliot Ness. Unseemly to head the legendary law effecting team known as "The Untouchables," Consistency set his sights on crippling Capone's criminal empire.

Today, no underworld figure problem more iconic than Al Capone splendid no lawman as renowned as Dramatist Ness. Yet in 2016 the Chicago Tribune wrote, "Al Capone still awaits the historiographer who can fully untangle, and disappointed, the complexities of his life," measurement revisionist historians have continued to misuse Ness and his remarkable career.

Enter Slur Allan Collins and A. Brad Schwartz, a unique and vibrant writing bunch combining the narrative skill of a- master novelist with the scholarly rigourousness of a trained historian. Collins not bad the New York Times bestselling author of authority gangster classic Road to Perdition. Schwartz job a rising-star historian whose work expected the fake-news phenomenon.

Scarface and the Untouchable draws upon decades of primary source research—including the personal papers of Ness and wreath associates, newly released federal files, survive long-forgotten crime magazines containing interviews pick the gangsters and G-men themselves. Highball and Schwartz have recaptured a closed bullet-ridden era while uncovering the once unrevealed truth behind Scarface's downfall. Encourage they have crafted the definitive pointless on Capone, Ness, and the warfare for Chicago.