Gangster in our Midst - 3rd Edition by Betty B Passick (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Author Betty Brandt Passick tells the neglected true Iowa story about an Italian American man who came to her small town in the 1920s-and lived among its people off and on for the next sixty years.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Marshal Sweeney Delaney was just a rookie in his small Iowa town when Congress ratified the 18th Amendment. Prohibition threw the whole nation into a tailspin. Even teetotaling Christians jumped on the bandwagon and began making panther piss in a still behind the barn. Then--a Chicago gangster came to town. His name: Louie La Cava. Sweeney followed the adage: Keep your friends close; your enemies closer. Two old friends are part of his inner circle: Walter Bierkoff, a farmer and man of keen curiosity, and the perspicacious Father John Halpin, priest at the I. C. Catholic Church.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Sweeney scrutinized Louie's demeanor, looking for just one involuntary<br /> flicker from just one honest muscle in his body: a quiver in a cheek, <br /> a tremor in a hand, a flinch from a foot. But he was steady, his eyes steely<br /> and cold; didn't blink an eyelid. His boss had risen to the top of the<br /> nation's Public Enemy list, a heartless brute who manipulated poor and<br /> rich alike; bribed, extorted, and murdered--and for what? The almighty<br /> dollar, that's what! Yet Louie was able to sit there, keepin' company with<br /> a town marshal, with all the composure of a schoolmarm teaching arithmetic<br /> to her class of prodigies."</p><p>"Vanessa did tell Sweeney once she thought she might have<br /> seen the butt of Louie's holster gun--but couldn't be sure. And Emmett<br /> reported: "I once saw a machine gun in Louie's trunk, I think."</p><p> </p><br>
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