Bryan Burrough is a special correspondent at Vanity Fair and the author of three previous books. A former reporter for the Wall Street Journal, he is a three-time winner of the John Hancock Award for excellence in financial journalism. Burrough lives in Summit, New Jersey, with his wife and their two sons.
" [A] riveting true-crime tale . . . fascinating . . . the real
story, it turns out, is much better than the Hollywood
version."
-"The Wall Street Journal"
"A rollicking yarn whose prose bounces across the page like a
getaway car through a wheat field."
-"Newsweek"
"An amazingly detailed true-life thriller that puts us on a
stakeout alongside the feds, inside the banks while bullets fly,
and inevitably, next to the criminals' bloody corpses."
-"Entertainment Weekly"
a [A] riveting true-crime tale . . . fascinating . . . the real
story, it turns out, is much better than the Hollywood
version.a
a"The Wall Street Journal"
a It is hard to imagine a more careful, complete and entrancing
book on the subject, and on this era.a
a"The Washington Post"
a A rollicking yarn whose prose bounces across the page like a
getaway car through a wheat field.a
a"Newsweek"
a Enemies is an amazingly detailed true-life thriller that puts us
on a stakeout alongside the feds, inside the banks while bullets
fly, and inevitably, next to the criminalsa bloody corpses.a
a"Entertainment Weekly," A
Burrough (coauthor, Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco) is clearly a gifted writer and a skilled researcher. Yet while many of the vignettes in this portrait of a crime era read like the best fiction, the book suffers from considerable back and forth and ends up a disappointing, disjointed affair. Just when the reader starts turning pages faster as the FBI begins to move in on Baby Face Nelson, Burrough switches to the hunt for John Dillinger. However colorful, the various gang members become harder and harder to distinguish, and the uninitiated will find themselves confused by the seemingly bland recitation of FBI agents complete with birth date, service dates, etc. and the criminals they pursued. With so much material, including recently released FBI files, Burrough could easily have filled twice the pages. In fact, he intends this to be serious history and rails against the Hollywood treatment afforded these murderous criminals, yet he, too, is guilty of sensational writing. Of interest mainly to true fans. Karen Sandlin Silverman, CFAR-Ctr. for Applied Research, Philadelphia Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
" [A] riveting true-crime tale . . . fascinating . . . the real
story, it turns out, is much better than the Hollywood
version."
-"The Wall Street Journal"
"A rollicking yarn whose prose bounces across the page like a
getaway car through a wheat field."
-"Newsweek"
"An amazingly detailed true-life thriller that puts us on a
stakeout alongside the feds, inside the banks while bullets fly,
and inevitably, next to the criminals' bloody corpses."
-"Entertainment Weekly"
a [A] riveting true-crime tale . . . fascinating . . . the real
story, it turns out, is much better than the Hollywood
version.a
a"The Wall Street Journal"
a It is hard to imagine a more careful, complete and entrancing
book on the subject, and on this era.a
a"The Washington Post"
a A rollicking yarn whose prose bounces across the page like a
getaway car through a wheat field.a
a"Newsweek"
a Enemies is an amazingly detailed true-life thriller that puts us
on a stakeout alongside the feds, inside the banks while bullets
fly, and inevitably, next to the criminalsa bloody corpses.a
a"Entertainment Weekly," A
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