By Douglas Perry
The tale of Eliot Ness, the mythical lawman who led the Untouchables, took on Al Capone, and kept a city’s soul
As chief of an unheard of crime-busting squad, twenty-eight-year-old Eliot Ness received popularity for taking over infamous mobster Al Capone. however the Untouchables’ bold raids have been purely the start of Ness’s not likely story.
This new biography grapples with the charismatic lawman’s advanced, principally forgotten legacy. Perry chronicles Ness’s days in Chicago in addition to his miraculous moment act in Cleveland, the place he completed his maximum luck: purging the profoundly corrupt urban and forging new practices that modified police paintings around the nation. He additionally confronted one in all his maximum demanding situations: a mysterious serial killer referred to as the Torso assassin. shooting the 1st entire portrait of the genuine Eliot Ness, Perry brings to lifestyles an unorthodox guy who believed within the integrity of legislations and the ability of yank justice.
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