Scarface and the Untouchable Lib/E

The perfect gift for Dad this Father's Day: the 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 ''REVOLUTIONIZES OUR UNDERSTANDING OF AL CAPONE AND ELIOT NESS.'' — Matthew Pearl • ''GRIPPING. READS LIKE A NOVEL.'' — Chicago magazine • ''AN EXTRAORDINARY ACHIEVEMENT.'' — Sara Paretsky • ''ESSENTIAL. THE TELLING IS SO EXPERTYLY DONE, IT'S HARD TO RESIST." — Seattle Times • "A VERY GOOD BOOK. READS WITH FORCE AND STYLE." — Chicago Tribune • "A DEFINITIVE ACCOUNT. MASTERFULLY WRITTEN." — CrimeReads Includes 115 photographs and a map of gangland Chicago. 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. Today, no underworld figure is more iconic than Al Capone and no lawman as renowned as Eliot Ness. Yet in 2016 the Chicago Tribune 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. 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 New York Times bestselling author of the gangster classic Road…