Eliot Ness: The Rise and Fall of an American Hero

by Douglas Perry

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143126288
• ISBN13: 9780143126287
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher