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The Rise and Fall of an American Hero
Viking
March 2014
On Sale: February 20, 2014
Featuring: Eliot Ness
340 pages
ISBN: 0670025887
EAN: 9780670025886
Kindle: B00DMCUZP8
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Non-Fiction Biography
The true story of Eliot Ness, the legendary lawman who
led the Untouchables, took on Al Capone, and saved a city’s
soul
Eliot Ness is famous for leading the
Untouchables against the notorious mobster Al Capone. But it
turns out that the legendary Prohibition Bureau squad’s
daring raids were only the beginning. Ness’s true legacy
reaches far beyond Big
Al and Chicago.
Eliot
Ness follows the lawman through his days in Chicago and
into his forgotten second act. As the public safety director
of Cleveland, he achieved his greatest success: purging the
city of corruption so deep that the mob and the police were
often one and the same. And it was here, too, that he faced
one of his greatest challenges: a brutal, serial killer
known as the Torso Murderer, who terrorized the city for
years.
Eliot Ness presents the first
complete picture of the real Eliot Ness. Both fearless and
shockingly shy, he inspired courage and loyalty in men twice
his age, forged law-enforcement innovations that are still
with us today, and earned acclaim and scandal from both his
professional and personal lives. Through it all, he believed
unwaveringly in the integrity of law and the basic goodness
of his fellow Americans.
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