Scarface and the Untouchable, Max Allan Collins
Scarface and the Untouchable, Max Allan Collins
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Scarface and the Untouchable
Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago

Author: Max Allan Collins, A. Brad Schwartz

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki, Max Allan Collins, A. Brad Schwartz

Unabridged: 18 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 08/14/2018

Synopsis

A THRILLING MAGNUM OPUS ON AMERICA’S GREAT CRIME EPICA Mystery Writers of America “Grand Master”—author of the gangster classic Road to Perdition, long-time Dick Tracy writer, and multiple Shamus Award winner—teams with an acclaimed rising young historian, in this riveting, myth-shattering dual portrait of Al Capone, America’s most notorious gangster, and Eliot Ness, the legendary Prohibition agent whose extraordinary investigative work crippled his organization. Written with novelistic pacing and underpinned by groundbreaking research, Max Allan Collins and A. Brad Schwartz's Scarface and the Untouchable delivers—at last—the definitive account of the “Battle for Chicago,” the iconic struggle between the mythic yet real combatants who have captivated the world for 90 years.

About Max Allan Collins

Max Allan Collins is a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master. He is the author of the Shamus Award-winning Nathan Heller thrillers and the graphic novel Road to Perdition, basis of the Academy Award-winning film starring Tom Hanks. His innovative Quarry novels led to a 2016 Cinemax series. He has completed a dozen posthumous Mickey Spillane mysteries, and wrote the syndicated Dick Tracy series for more than fifteen years. His one-man show, Eliot Ness: An Untouchable Life, was an Edgar Award finalist. He lives in Iowa.

About A. Brad Schwartz

A. Brad Schwartz is the author of Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles's War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake News, based in part on research from his senior thesis at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He cowrote a documentary about the War of the Worlds broadcast for the PBS series American Experience. He is currently a doctoral candidate in American history at Princeton University.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Glen

An exhaustively and meticulously researched book about the lives of Elliot Ness and Al Capone, and their battle for Chicago. Tracing the lives of the two men from their births, you learn almost everything there is to know about the time of the Untouchables. HIghly recommended.......more

Goodreads review by carl

The Introduction presents the case for how comprehensive and well researched this tale is and cites the various other books that fail to meet the challenge of the ‘Whole story’ of the battle between the infamous Chicago gangster Al Capone and his law enforcement nemesis, Untouchable Eliot Ness. Give......more

Goodreads review by Walt

Having read a lot of books on organized crime and Al Capone in particular, I was not expecting much from yet another biography. I am pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed the book. It is more engaging than many previous books such as Bergreen's Capone The Man and the Era and Schoenberg's Mr. Ca......more

Goodreads review by Alan

Meticulously researched, this book will serve as the definitive history of prohibition era gangland Chicago. It clears up many erroneous impressions of the role of the prohibition enforecement unit known as the Untouchables in bringing down Capone and his Outfit. It credits them with negatively impa......more

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