Paperback. Pub Date :2009-4-1 Pages: 592 Publisher: Penguin Coming in Summer 2009. the major motion picture from UniversalStudios ludicrously entertaining (Time). Public Enemies is the story ofthe most spectacular crime wave in American history. the two- yearbattle between the young J. Edgar Hoover and his FBI. and anassortment of criminals who became national icons:. John Dillinger. Machine Gun Kelly. Bonnie and Clyde. Baby Face Nelson. Pretty BoyFloyd. and the Barkers In an epic feat of storytelling. Burroughreveals a web of interconnections within the vast Americanunderworld and demonstrates how Hoovers G-men secured the FBIsrise to power.
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Brims with vivid portraiture ... Excellent true crime. ("The New York Times Book Review") An amazingly detailed true-life thriller... ("Entertainment Weekly", A) It is hard to imagine a more careful, complete and entrancing book on the subject, and on this era. ("The Washington Post") [A] riveting true-crime tale... Fascinating... The real story, it turns out, is much better than the Hollywood version. ("The Wall Street Journal") Massively researched, ludicrously entertaining.("Time ") Spellbinding... A model of narrative journalism and [a] gripping read. ("BusinessWeek")
"Brims with vivid portraiture ... Excellent true crime." --The New York Times Book Review
"An amazingly detailed true-life thriller..." --Entertainment Weekly
"It is hard to imagine a more careful, complete and entrancing book on the subject, and on this era." --The Washington Post
"[A] riveting true-crime tale... Fascinating... The real story, it turns out, is much better than the Hollywood version." --The Wall Street Journal
"Spellbinding... A model of narrative journalism and [a] gripping read." --BusinessWeek
-An amazingly detailed true-life thriller...- --Entertainment Weekly
-It is hard to imagine a more careful, complete and entrancing book on the subject, and on this era.- --The Washington Post
-[A] riveting true-crime tale... Fascinating... The real story, it turns out, is much better than the Hollywood version.- --The Wall Street Journal
-Spellbinding... A model of narrative journalism and [a] gripping read.- --BusinessWeek
Entrancing ... definitive ... a wild and amazing story' Washington Post
In 1933 a crime wave blazed across America. Fuelled by cheap liquor and fast cars, gangs of chancers, bank robbers, gunslingers and their molls cut a murderous, cash-snatching dash through the US - and became
legends. Among them were homicidal Baby Face Nelson, outlaws Bonnie and Clyde, cranky hillbilly Ma Barker and, most deadly of all, the suave gentleman criminal John Dillinger.
This is the breakneck story of America's most wanted, and their nemesis: J. Edgar Hoover and his strong-arm law enforcers, the agents of the FBI. Using shocking secret files and eyewitness accounts, Public Enemies reveals the facts about the crime spree that shook America.
'Seriously exciting ... crackles and pops with dialogue so outrageous that you suspect a dozen scriptwriters have worked on it, but every word is true' Spectator
'Excellent true crime ... brims with vivid portraiture' The New York Times
'It makes a good tale, and Burroughs tells it well, in all its horrible detail' Literary Review
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