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"A definite account. Masterfully written. -- ""CrimeReads"" A gripping take on Chicago's past that reads like a novel. -- ""Chicago magazine"" A gritty dual biography reveals the underworld of crime and corruption in 1920s and '30s America...A fast-paced tale related with novelistic drama. -- ""Kirkus Reviews"" Collins and Schwartz present a balanced view of the role of Ness in capturing Capone...The result is an informed and valuable addition to the numerous books about Capone and Ness. -- ""Publishers Weekly"" Revolutionizes our understanding of Al Capone and Eliot Ness beyond myths and misinformation with groundbreaking research and effortless storytelling that will thrill historians and general readers alike. -- ""Matthew Pearl, New York Times bestselling author"" The telling is so expertly done, it's hard to resist. -- ""Seattle Times"" This audiobook is a fascinating examination of the terrible times when the Mob ruled Chicago, with Stefan Rudnicki doing a pretty solid job of substituting for Walter Winchell's staccato Untouchables delivery...The chronological work follows the lives of the two men and is impossible to turn off. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award. -- ""AudioFile"""

Revolutionizes our understanding of Al Capone and Eliot Ness beyond myths and misinformation with groundbreaking research and effortless storytelling that will thrill historians and general readers alike. -- Matthew Pearl, New York Times bestselling author The telling is so expertly done, it's hard to resist. -- Seattle Times A gripping take on Chicago's past that reads like a novel. -- Chicago magazine A definite account. Masterfully written. -- CrimeReads This audiobook is a fascinating examination of the terrible times when the Mob ruled Chicago, with Stefan Rudnicki doing a pretty solid job of substituting for Walter Winchell's staccato Untouchables delivery...The chronological work follows the lives of the two men and is impossible to turn off. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award. -- AudioFile Collins and Schwartz present a balanced view of the role of Ness in capturing Capone...The result is an informed and valuable addition to the numerous books about Capone and Ness. -- Publishers Weekly A gritty dual biography reveals the underworld of crime and corruption in 1920s and '30s America...A fast-paced tale related with novelistic drama. -- Kirkus Reviews

A gritty dual biography reveals the underworld of crime and corruption in 1920s and '30s America...A fast-paced tale related with novelistic drama. -- Kirkus Reviews Collins and Schwartz present a balanced view of the role of Ness in capturing Capone...The result is an informed and valuable addition to the numerous books about Capone and Ness. -- Publishers Weekly This audiobook is a fascinating examination of the terrible times when the Mob ruled Chicago, with Stefan Rudnicki doing a pretty solid job of substituting for Walter Winchell's staccato Untouchables delivery...The chronological work follows the lives of the two men and is impossible to turn off. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award. -- AudioFile A definite account. Masterfully written. -- CrimeReads A gripping take on Chicago's past that reads like a novel. -- Chicago magazine The telling is so expertly done, it's hard to resist. -- Seattle Times Revolutionizes our understanding of Al Capone and Eliot Ness beyond myths and misinformation with groundbreaking research and effortless storytelling that will thrill historians and general readers alike. -- Matthew Pearl, New York Times bestselling author

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Max Allan Collins received the 2017 Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Edgar. He is the author of the Shamus Award-winning Nathan Heller historical thrillers, and his graphic novel Road to Perdition became the Academy Award-winning Sam Mendes 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 comic strip for fifteen years. His one-man show, Eliot Ness: An Untouchable Life, was an Edgar Award finalist. He lives in Iowa. 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. In 2013, he cowrote a documentary about the War of the Worlds broadcast for the PBS series American Experience. He has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Vanity Fair. Raised in East Lansing, Michigan, he is currently a doctoral student in American history at Princeton University. Stefan Rudnicki first became involved with audiobooks in 1994. Now a Grammy-winning audiobook producer, he has worked on more than three thousand audiobooks as a narrator, writer, producer, or director. He has narrated more than three hundred audiobooks. A recipient of multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards, he was presented the coveted Audie Award for solo narration in 2005, 2007, and 2014, and was named one of AudioFile's Golden Voices in 2012.

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