Public Enemies
By Bryan Burrough
(Penguin (Non-Classics), Paperback, 9780143115861, 624pp.)
Publication Date: April 2009
Other Editions of This Title: Paperback (July 2005), Audio Cassette - Abridged (July 19, 2004), Compact Disc - Abridged (July 19, 2004)
Categories: Organized Crime, Political Freedom & Security - Law Enforcement, United States - 20th Century/Depression
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Coming in Summer 2009, the major motion picture from Universal Studios
" ludicrously entertaining" (Time), Public Enemies is the story of the most spectacular crime wave in American history, the two-year battle between the young J. Edgar Hoover, his FBI and an 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, 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.
Bryan Burrough is a special correspondent for Vanity Fair, a former reporter for The Wall Street Journal and the author of three previous books.
" [A] riveting true-crime tale . . . fascinating . . . the real story, it turns out, is much better than the Hollywood version."
-The Wall Street Journal
" It is hard to imagine a more careful, complete and entrancing book on the subject, and on this era."
-The Washington Post
" A rollicking yarn whose prose bounces across the page like a getaway car through a wheat field."
-Newsweek
" 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 criminals' bloody corpses."
-Entertainment Weekly, A
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