Eliot Ness by Douglas Perry

Eliot Ness by Douglas Perry

The story of Eliot Ness, the legendary lawman who led the Untouchables, took on Al Capone, and saved a city's soul

As leader of an unprecedented crime-busting squad, twenty-eight-year-old Eliot Ness won fame for taking on notorious mobster Al Capone. But the Untouchables' daring raids were only the beginning of Ness's unlikely story.

This new biography grapples with the charismatic lawman's complicated, largely forgotten legacy. Perry chronicles Ness's days in Chicago as well as his spectacular second act in Cleveland, where he achieved his greatest success: purging the profoundly corrupt city and forging new practices that changed police work across the country. He also faced one of his greatest challenges: a mysterious serial killer known as the Torso Murderer. Capturing the first complete portrait of the real Eliot Ness, Perry brings to life an unorthodox man who believed in the integrity of law and the power of American justice.

Douglas Perry is a multi-award-winning writer and editor whose work has appeared in magazines such as the Chicago Tribune, Chicago magazine, The Oregonian, Tennis, and others. He has written two nonfiction books and collaborated on another. Perry's The Daughters of Murder City has been described as a sexy, swaggering historical story by the Wall Street Journal. According to the Christian Science Monitor, his biography of Eliot Ness is erudite, authoritative, and full of challenges to the established system.

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ISBN 13	9780143126287
ISBN 10	0143126288
Title	Eliot Ness
Author	Douglas Perry
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2015-03-31
Number of pages	368
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