John Dillinger

Description

"Author Dary Matera sets the Dillinger record straight, seventy years after the famed outlaw's death. John Dillinger is an adrenaline-fueled narrative that reignites America's fascination with the desperado who became the FBI's first "Public Enemy," whose criminal success catalyzed the modernization of law enforcement agencies, and whose story - until now - has been riddled with rumors and flat-out fiction." "John Dillinger brings to light new information, including bank robberies never before reported; detailed plans for major crimes that Dillinger nearly implemented; the revelation that the "Lady in Red" was actually a police plant; and the fact that John Dillinger was summarily executed by rogue FBI agents manipulated by East Chicago detectives desperate to cover up widespread police corruption." "With access to the thousands of detailed eyewitness accounts, once-classified FBI files, police records, court transcripts, private detective files, and other sources collected by historians Joe Pinkston and Tom Smusyn in the world's foremost Dillinger archives, Matera describes every robbery, shoot-out, and prison escape as though he choreographed them himself."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

Nail tough, fiercely determined, and bounding with kinetic energy, the rambunctious ten-year-old reigned over a gang of pipsqueak thugs who stole for profit, including coal they pinched from the Pennsylvania Railroad gondolas.

Excerpt

Nail tough, fiercely determined, and bounding with kinetic energy, the rambunctious ten-year-old reigned over a gang of pipsqueak thugs who stole for profit, including coal they pinched from the Pennsylvania Railroad gondolas.

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Other Editions

• John Dillinger: the life and death of America's first celebrity criminalCarroll & Graf Publishers2004-01-01
• John DillingerPaperbackCarroll & Graf2005-05-10