Scarface and the Untouchable - by Max Allan Collins & A Brad Schwartz (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>The new definitive history of gangster-era Chicago-a landmark work that is as riveting as a thriller. </strong><strong>Now featuring a new preface, plus </strong><strong>115 photographs and a map of gangland Chicago.</strong></p><p><strong>A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year</strong></p><p>"Gripping. ... Reads like a novel." <em>--</em><em>Chicago</em> </p><p>"Revolutionizes our understanding of Al Capone and Eliot Ness. <em>--</em>Matthew Pearl</p><p>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 hero and national celebrity. But after the brutal St. Valentine's Day Massacre transformed Capone into Public Enemy Number One, the federal government found an unlikely new hero in a twenty-seven-year-old Prohibition agent named Eliot Ness. Chosen to head the legendary law enforcement team known as The Untouchables, Ness set his sights on crippling Capone's criminal empire.</p><p>Today, no underworld figure is more iconic than Al Capone and no lawman as renowned as Eliot Ness. Yet in 2016 the <em>Chicago Tribune</em> wrote, Al Capone still awaits the biographer who can fully untangle, and balance, the complexities of his life, while revisionist historians have continued to misrepresent Ness and his remarkable career.</p><p>Enter Max Allan Collins and A. Brad Schwartz, a unique and vibrant writing team combining the narrative skill of a master novelist with the scholarly rigor of a trained historian. Collins is the <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of the gangster classic <em>Road to Perdition</em>. Schwartz is a rising-star historian whose work anticipated the fake-news phenomenon.</p><p><em>Scarface and the Untouchable</em> draws upon decades of primary source research--including the personal papers of Ness and his associates, newly released federal files, and long-forgotten crime magazines containing interviews with the gangsters and G-men themselves. Collins and Schwartz have recaptured a bygone bullet-ridden era while uncovering the previously unrevealed truth behind Scarface's downfall. Together they have crafted the definitive work on Capone, Ness, and the battle for Chicago.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p><strong>A CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR</strong></p><p><strong>Featuring a new preface and bonus material</strong></p><p><strong>The definitive history of gangster-era Chicago--a landmark work that is as riveting as a thriller</strong></p><p>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 hero and national celebrity. But after the brutal St. Valentine's Day Massacre transformed Capone into "Public Enemy Number One," the federal government found an unlikely new hero in a twenty-seven-year-old Prohibition agent named Eliot Ness. Chosen to head the legendary law enforcement team known as "The Untouchables," Ness set his sights on crippling Capone's criminal empire.</p><p>Today, no underworld figure is more iconic than Al Capone and no lawman as renowned as Eliot Ness. In <em>Scarface and the Untouchable</em>, Max Allan Collins, the <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of the gangster classic <em>Road to Perdition</em>, and A. Brad Schwartz, a rising-star historian whose work anticipated the fake news phenomenon, draw upon decades of primary source research, including the personal papers of Ness and his associates, newly released federal files, and long-forgotten crime magazines containing interviews with the gangsters and G-men themselves.</p>Recapturing a bygone bullet-ridden era while uncovering the previously unrevealed truth behind Scarface's downfall, Collins and Schwartz have crafted the definitive work on Capone, Ness, and the battle for Chicago.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Compelling. ... A very good book. ... A narrative that reads with force and style."--<em>Chicago Tribune</em><br><br>"Succeed[s] admirably. ... Careful research combined with vivid pulp style."--<em>Booklist</em><br><br>"The scholarship displayed in <em>Scarface and the Untouchable</em> is extraordinary, probing deeply into the activities, interrelationships and mindsets of the many principal characters."--<em>BookPage</em><br><br>"A page-turner, as gripping as any novel. ... A vividly detailed chronicle. ... What a great saga this is."--LEONARD MALTIN<br><br>"Essential. ... A superior example [of true crime]. ... When the subject is this fascinating and the telling so expertly done, it's hard to resist."--<em>Seattle Times</em><br><br>"<em>Scarface and the Untouchable </em>reads like fiction. But it's real. Collins and Schwartz bring to life an era of American which will never be replicated."--OSCAR B. GOODMAN, legendary "mob attorney" and three-term mayor of Las Vegas<br><br>"<em>Scarface and the Untouchable</em> is an extraordinary achievement. The writing is riveting, the research impeccable--including material never published before--and the history of a city and a country teetering on the brink of total lawlessness is a sober warning for our own age."--SARA PARETSKY, author of the bestselling V.I. Warshawski novels<br><br>"<em>Scarface and the Untouchable</em> revolutionizes our understanding of Al Capone and Eliot Ness. An indispensable exercise in Prohibition-era excitement."--MATTHEW PEARL, author of <em>The Dante Club</em> and <em>The Dante Chamber</em><br><br>"A gripping take on Chicago's past that reads like a novel."--Chicago Magazine<br><br>"Provide[s] a definitive account of Capone and Ness's linked destinies. ... Lively and masterfully written... with the scholarship to back it up."--CrimeReads<br>
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