| Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago Contributor(s): Collins, Max Allan (Read by), Schwartz, A. Brad (Read by), Rudnicki, Stefan (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1538552140 ISBN-13: 9781538552148 Publisher: William Morrow & Company OUR PRICE: $35.99 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: August 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Criminals & Outlaws - True Crime | Organized Crime - History | United States - 20th Century |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 1.8" H x 6.1" W x 5.6" (0.83 lbs) |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A THRILLING MAGNUM OPUS ON AMERICA'S GREAT CRIME EPIC A Mystery Writers of America "Grand Master"--author of the gangster classic Road to Perdition, long-time Dick Tracy writer, and multiple Shamus Award winner--teams with an acclaimed rising young historian, in this riveting, myth-shattering dual portrait of Al Capone, America's most notorious gangster, and Eliot Ness, the legendary Prohibition agent whose extraordinary investigative work crippled his organization. Written with novelistic pacing and underpinned by groundbreaking research, Max Allan Collins and A. Brad Schwartz's Scarface and the Untouchable delivers--at last--the definitive account of the "Battle for Chicago," the iconic struggle between the mythic yet real combatants who have captivated the world for 90 years. |
Contributor Bio(s): Collins, Max Allan: - 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. Rudnicki, Stefan: -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. Schwartz, A. Brad: -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. |