About the Author

Max Allan Collins is a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master. He is the author of the Shamus Award-winning Nathan Heller thrillers and the graphic novel Road to Perdition, basis of the Academy Award-winning 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 series for more than fifteen years. His one-man show, Eliot Ness: An Untouchable Life, was an Edgar Award finalist. He lives in Iowa.

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. He cowrote a documentary about the War of the Worlds broadcast for the PBS series American Experience. He is currently a doctoral candidate in American history at Princeton University.

Reviews

"Essential. ... A superior example [of true crime]. ... When the subject is this fascinating and the telling so expertly done, it's hard to resist." -- Seattle Times"Compelling. ... A very good book. ... A narrative that reads with force and style." -- Chicago Tribune"Scarface and the Untouchable revolutionizes our understanding of Al Capone and Eliot Ness. An indispensable exercise in Prohibition-era excitement." -- MATTHEW PEARL, author of The Dante Club and The Dante Chamber"Scarface and the Untouchable is an extraordinary achievement. The writing is riveting, the research impeccable--including material never published before--and the history of a city and a country teetering on the brink of total lawlessness is a sober warning for our own age." -- SARA PARETSKY, author of the bestselling V.I. Warshawski novels"A gripping take on Chicago's past that reads like a novel." -- Chicago Magazine"A page-turner, as gripping as any novel. ... A vividly detailed chronicle. ... What a great saga this is." -- LEONARD MALTIN"Provide[s] a definitive account of Capone and Ness's linked destinies. ... Lively and masterfully written... with the scholarship to back it up." -- CrimeReads"Scarface and the Untouchable reads like fiction. But it's real. Collins and Schwartz bring to life an era of American which will never be replicated." -- OSCAR B. GOODMAN, legendary "mob attorney" and three-term mayor of Las Vegas"Succeed[s] admirably. ... Careful research combined with vivid pulp style." -- Booklist"The scholarship displayed in Scarface and the Untouchable is extraordinary, probing deeply into the activities, interrelationships and mindsets of the many principal characters." -- BookPage"Vivid. ... A deep and detailed dive into a staple of American popular mythology." -- Washington Independent Review of Books"An informed and valuable addition to the numerous books about Capone and Ness." -- Publishers Weekly"A book full of fascinating details... [and] made-for-movies scenes." -- The Star-Ledger"Epic. ... A good read." -- New York Journal of Books"Readers will enjoy this dual biography, which reads like a popular novel, and will learn that Capone could be a cold-blooded killer." -- Lansing City Pulse"Entrancing. ... Will keep you enthralled, reading for hours. ... [A] monumental volume, including the discovery of considerable previously unknown information." -- Lansing State Journal"Scarface and the Untouchable is a page-turning history that overwhelms the past retellings of the pre-eminent battle against organized crime. An excellent book that is history, biography, and true crime." -- San Francisco Book Review