Author: Trudy Irene Scee
Publisher: Down East Books
ISBN: 1608935124
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Al Brady was an armed robber and murderer in the 1930s and became the FBI's Public Enemy #1. The crime spree of Brady and his gang brought them from the south and midwest to Maine. A hardware store owner in Bangor became suspicious when Brady requested a large supply of ammunition and paid with an equally large amount of cash, and notified police. The FBI was waiting in ambush for them when they arrived to pick up the ammo. The rest is history, as on October 12, 1937, Brady and an accomplice were killed in a hail of bullets in broad daylight in downtown Bangor. This spectacular public gun-battle has become an integral part of Maine lore. Now, historian Trudy Irene Scee tells the story, including Brady's growing up in Indiana, his criminal exploits, and what brought he and his cohorts to Maine.
Public Enemy Number One
Author: Trudy Irene Scee
Publisher: Down East Books
ISBN: 1608935124
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Al Brady was an armed robber and murderer in the 1930s and became the FBI's Public Enemy #1. The crime spree of Brady and his gang brought them from the south and midwest to Maine. A hardware store owner in Bangor became suspicious when Brady requested a large supply of ammunition and paid with an equally large amount of cash, and notified police. The FBI was waiting in ambush for them when they arrived to pick up the ammo. The rest is history, as on October 12, 1937, Brady and an accomplice were killed in a hail of bullets in broad daylight in downtown Bangor. This spectacular public gun-battle has become an integral part of Maine lore. Now, historian Trudy Irene Scee tells the story, including Brady's growing up in Indiana, his criminal exploits, and what brought he and his cohorts to Maine.
Publisher: Down East Books
ISBN: 1608935124
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Al Brady was an armed robber and murderer in the 1930s and became the FBI's Public Enemy #1. The crime spree of Brady and his gang brought them from the south and midwest to Maine. A hardware store owner in Bangor became suspicious when Brady requested a large supply of ammunition and paid with an equally large amount of cash, and notified police. The FBI was waiting in ambush for them when they arrived to pick up the ammo. The rest is history, as on October 12, 1937, Brady and an accomplice were killed in a hail of bullets in broad daylight in downtown Bangor. This spectacular public gun-battle has become an integral part of Maine lore. Now, historian Trudy Irene Scee tells the story, including Brady's growing up in Indiana, his criminal exploits, and what brought he and his cohorts to Maine.
The Alvin Karpis Story
Author: Alvin Karpis
Publisher: New York : Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
ISBN: 9784871873338
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
"Alvin Karpis was released from prison in December, 1968, on extradition parole to Canada, having served thirty-three years of a life sentence he received for the kidnapping of William Hamm, Jr., of the Hamm Breweries in Minneapolis-St. Paul. Over a period of a year, Karpis (with co-author Bill Trent), taped his vivid memories of a remarkable life in thirties crime, of his friendships with the pantheon of professional criminals, and of his prolonged pursuit by J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI."--Page [4 of cover].
Publisher: New York : Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
ISBN: 9784871873338
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
"Alvin Karpis was released from prison in December, 1968, on extradition parole to Canada, having served thirty-three years of a life sentence he received for the kidnapping of William Hamm, Jr., of the Hamm Breweries in Minneapolis-St. Paul. Over a period of a year, Karpis (with co-author Bill Trent), taped his vivid memories of a remarkable life in thirties crime, of his friendships with the pantheon of professional criminals, and of his prolonged pursuit by J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI."--Page [4 of cover].
Dillinger's Wild Ride
Author: Elliott J. Gorn
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199769168
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
John Dillinger was one of the most famous and flamboyant celebrity outlaws, and this book illuminates the significnace of his tremendous fame and the endurance of his legacy of crime and violence, and the transformation of America during the Great Depression.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199769168
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
John Dillinger was one of the most famous and flamboyant celebrity outlaws, and this book illuminates the significnace of his tremendous fame and the endurance of his legacy of crime and violence, and the transformation of America during the Great Depression.
Public Enemy #1
Author: Kiki Swinson
Publisher: Dafina
ISBN: 1496729773
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
National bestselling author Kiki Swinson amps up the action and suspense with unpredictable characters, breakneck twists, and a gut-punch portrait of Southern surviving--and dying. Now the odds are straight-up killer when a private eye gets in way over her head... Too much to prove... A former journalist with a knack for unraveling dirty secrets, Khloé Mercer figures if she's going to risk her life, she might as well make big money as a private investigator. But this reckless newbie needs a major case to make her name--and really show she can handle Norfolk, Virginia's toughest streets... Too much to hide... When a narcotics detective's widow needs someone to investigate her disgraced husband's so-called suicide, Khloé jumps at the lucrative fee--and the clues that the Norfolk Police Department is rotten from top to bottom. And with formidable backup from her ex-felon uncle, she turns the city upside-down to uncover the truth... Too late to run... But Khloé's cage-rattling tactics and high-wire strategies threaten both the cops and the city's brutal underworld alike. Now, with her life in the crosshairs and no one she can trust, she'll find that building a reputation comes with a price she may not survive to pay...
Publisher: Dafina
ISBN: 1496729773
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
National bestselling author Kiki Swinson amps up the action and suspense with unpredictable characters, breakneck twists, and a gut-punch portrait of Southern surviving--and dying. Now the odds are straight-up killer when a private eye gets in way over her head... Too much to prove... A former journalist with a knack for unraveling dirty secrets, Khloé Mercer figures if she's going to risk her life, she might as well make big money as a private investigator. But this reckless newbie needs a major case to make her name--and really show she can handle Norfolk, Virginia's toughest streets... Too much to hide... When a narcotics detective's widow needs someone to investigate her disgraced husband's so-called suicide, Khloé jumps at the lucrative fee--and the clues that the Norfolk Police Department is rotten from top to bottom. And with formidable backup from her ex-felon uncle, she turns the city upside-down to uncover the truth... Too late to run... But Khloé's cage-rattling tactics and high-wire strategies threaten both the cops and the city's brutal underworld alike. Now, with her life in the crosshairs and no one she can trust, she'll find that building a reputation comes with a price she may not survive to pay...
Enemy Number One
Author: Patrick Veitch
Publisher: Racing Post
ISBN: 9781905156702
Category : Gamblers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The sensational inside story of how the UK's most feared professional punter overcame adversity to take the bookmakers for more than £10 million in an eight-year period. This book offers a brutal, often controversial, but utterly fascinating insight into Patrick Veitch's life of punting. Told in Veitch's own candid ice-cool style, with an intelligent wit throughout, this is quite simply a compelling read.
Publisher: Racing Post
ISBN: 9781905156702
Category : Gamblers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The sensational inside story of how the UK's most feared professional punter overcame adversity to take the bookmakers for more than £10 million in an eight-year period. This book offers a brutal, often controversial, but utterly fascinating insight into Patrick Veitch's life of punting. Told in Veitch's own candid ice-cool style, with an intelligent wit throughout, this is quite simply a compelling read.
A Pretoria Boy
Author: Peter Hain
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN: 1776191234
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
'A tour de force of an extraordinary half-century of campaigning for justice' – Helen Clark, former New Zealand Prime Minister and United Nations Development Chief Peter Hain – famous for his commitment to the anti-apartheid struggle – has had a dramatic 50-year political career, both in Britain and in his childhood home of South Africa, in an extraordinary journey from Pretoria to the House of Lords. Hain vividly describes the arrest and harassment of his activist parents and their friends in the early 1960s, the hanging of a close family friend, and the Hains' enforced London exile in 1966. After organising militant campaigns in the UK against touring South African rugby and cricket sides, he was dubbed 'Public Enemy Number One' by the South African media. Narrowly escaping jail for disrupting all-white South African sports tours, he was maliciously framed for bank robbery and nearly assassinated by a letter bomb. In 2017–2018 he used British parliamentary privilege to expose looting and money laundering in then President Jacob Zuma's administration, informed by a 'Deep Throat' source. While acknowledging that the ANC government has lost its way, Hain exhorts South Africans to re-embrace Nelson Mandela's vision.
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN: 1776191234
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
'A tour de force of an extraordinary half-century of campaigning for justice' – Helen Clark, former New Zealand Prime Minister and United Nations Development Chief Peter Hain – famous for his commitment to the anti-apartheid struggle – has had a dramatic 50-year political career, both in Britain and in his childhood home of South Africa, in an extraordinary journey from Pretoria to the House of Lords. Hain vividly describes the arrest and harassment of his activist parents and their friends in the early 1960s, the hanging of a close family friend, and the Hains' enforced London exile in 1966. After organising militant campaigns in the UK against touring South African rugby and cricket sides, he was dubbed 'Public Enemy Number One' by the South African media. Narrowly escaping jail for disrupting all-white South African sports tours, he was maliciously framed for bank robbery and nearly assassinated by a letter bomb. In 2017–2018 he used British parliamentary privilege to expose looting and money laundering in then President Jacob Zuma's administration, informed by a 'Deep Throat' source. While acknowledging that the ANC government has lost its way, Hain exhorts South Africans to re-embrace Nelson Mandela's vision.
Public Enemy Number 1
Author: Wensley Clarkson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781857823059
Category : Fugitives from justice
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Kenneth Noye is already a semi-legendary figure in the criminal underworld. Now Wensley Clarkson has travelled three continents to interview many of Noye's associates, lovers, relatives, childhood companions, friends and relatives to create a portrait of a man on the edge.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781857823059
Category : Fugitives from justice
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Kenneth Noye is already a semi-legendary figure in the criminal underworld. Now Wensley Clarkson has travelled three continents to interview many of Noye's associates, lovers, relatives, childhood companions, friends and relatives to create a portrait of a man on the edge.
Public Enemies
Author: Bryan Burrough
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110103274X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
In Public Enemies, bestselling author Bryan Burrough strips away the thick layer of myths put out by J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI to tell the full story—for the first time—of the most spectacular crime wave in American history, the two-year battle between the young Hoover and the assortment of criminals who became national icons: John Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly, Bonnie and Clyde, Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, and the Barkers. In an epic feat of storytelling and drawing on a remarkable amount of newly available material on all the major figures involved, Burrough reveals a web of interconnections within the vast American underworld and demonstrates how Hoover’s G-men overcame their early fumbles to secure the FBI’s rise to power.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110103274X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
In Public Enemies, bestselling author Bryan Burrough strips away the thick layer of myths put out by J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI to tell the full story—for the first time—of the most spectacular crime wave in American history, the two-year battle between the young Hoover and the assortment of criminals who became national icons: John Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly, Bonnie and Clyde, Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, and the Barkers. In an epic feat of storytelling and drawing on a remarkable amount of newly available material on all the major figures involved, Burrough reveals a web of interconnections within the vast American underworld and demonstrates how Hoover’s G-men overcame their early fumbles to secure the FBI’s rise to power.
Abe Lincoln
Author: Bill Walker
Publisher: Bill Walker DBA Lowtide Books
ISBN: 9780989745703
Category : Coma
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
When John Wilkes Booth shoots Lincoln with a bullet cursed by the notorious Chicken Man, a local voodoo practitioner, he unwittingly sets in motion a chain of events extending far into the future. Instead of killing Lincoln, the bullet puts the president into a coma for sixty-eight years, his body remaining limber and ageless. When he awakens in 1933, Abe Lincoln is a man out of time, a revered icon...and a political pariah. FDR and J. Edgar Hoover not only do not want him around, they want him to retire. But their plan to be rid of him backfires and Lincoln is on the run, a fugitive from justice. Determined to reach Chicago and retrieve the small fortune left in trust for him by his long-dead son, Lincoln discovers that Hoover has confiscated all his money, leaving him destitute. With Bureau of Investigation agent Melvin Purvis in hot pursuit, Lincoln finds his way to a hobo camp where he befriends a young runaway, who agrees to accompany the former president back to Washington. There Lincoln hopes that Hannah Wheelhouse, the Chicken Man's granddaughter, can help him find the peace he longs for. Then fate deals Lincoln another strange hand when he and the boy end up as hostages to infamous bank robber John Dillinger. Instead of leaving them by the side of the road after the robbery, Dillinger takes a liking to Lincoln and invites him to join the gang, promising him he'll get all his money back. Will Lincoln survive long enough to recapture his fortune and get away, or will he be hunted down in a manner unbefitting a martyred President? In Brian Anthony and Bill Walker's inventive and entertaining novel, history gets a work-out, the action is flat-out, and almost everyone gets rubbed-out!
Publisher: Bill Walker DBA Lowtide Books
ISBN: 9780989745703
Category : Coma
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
When John Wilkes Booth shoots Lincoln with a bullet cursed by the notorious Chicken Man, a local voodoo practitioner, he unwittingly sets in motion a chain of events extending far into the future. Instead of killing Lincoln, the bullet puts the president into a coma for sixty-eight years, his body remaining limber and ageless. When he awakens in 1933, Abe Lincoln is a man out of time, a revered icon...and a political pariah. FDR and J. Edgar Hoover not only do not want him around, they want him to retire. But their plan to be rid of him backfires and Lincoln is on the run, a fugitive from justice. Determined to reach Chicago and retrieve the small fortune left in trust for him by his long-dead son, Lincoln discovers that Hoover has confiscated all his money, leaving him destitute. With Bureau of Investigation agent Melvin Purvis in hot pursuit, Lincoln finds his way to a hobo camp where he befriends a young runaway, who agrees to accompany the former president back to Washington. There Lincoln hopes that Hannah Wheelhouse, the Chicken Man's granddaughter, can help him find the peace he longs for. Then fate deals Lincoln another strange hand when he and the boy end up as hostages to infamous bank robber John Dillinger. Instead of leaving them by the side of the road after the robbery, Dillinger takes a liking to Lincoln and invites him to join the gang, promising him he'll get all his money back. Will Lincoln survive long enough to recapture his fortune and get away, or will he be hunted down in a manner unbefitting a martyred President? In Brian Anthony and Bill Walker's inventive and entertaining novel, history gets a work-out, the action is flat-out, and almost everyone gets rubbed-out!
Inmate #13225 John Herbert Dillinger
Author: Ray C. Tincher
Publisher: Publishamerica Incorporated
ISBN: 9781424182336
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
John Herbert Dillinger (June 22, 1903aJuly 22, 1934) was an American bank robber, considered by some to be a dangerous criminal, while others idealized him as a Robin Hood. His exploits, along with Bonnie & Clyde, aBaby Facea Nelson, aMachine Guna Kelley, Barker Gang and others, dominated the attention of American newspapers, radio and law enforcement. John Dillinger served 9A1/2 years in the Indiana penal system before the majority of Americans ever heard of him. Most of the residents living in his hometown signed and presented a petition requesting his early release from prison. Little did they know, during the next 14 months after his release, he would become more famous than the President of the United States during that era. Inmate #13225 John Herbert Dillinger reveals dates, times and events that ultimately cost the lives of 11 law enforcement personnel and several innocent people. In addition, Dillinger was instrumental in one of the most daring prison escapes in penal history.
Publisher: Publishamerica Incorporated
ISBN: 9781424182336
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
John Herbert Dillinger (June 22, 1903aJuly 22, 1934) was an American bank robber, considered by some to be a dangerous criminal, while others idealized him as a Robin Hood. His exploits, along with Bonnie & Clyde, aBaby Facea Nelson, aMachine Guna Kelley, Barker Gang and others, dominated the attention of American newspapers, radio and law enforcement. John Dillinger served 9A1/2 years in the Indiana penal system before the majority of Americans ever heard of him. Most of the residents living in his hometown signed and presented a petition requesting his early release from prison. Little did they know, during the next 14 months after his release, he would become more famous than the President of the United States during that era. Inmate #13225 John Herbert Dillinger reveals dates, times and events that ultimately cost the lives of 11 law enforcement personnel and several innocent people. In addition, Dillinger was instrumental in one of the most daring prison escapes in penal history.