The confessions of Al Capone
By: Loren D. Eslteman
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Thorndike Press large print crime scene; Thorndike Press large print crime scene
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 589
ISBN-13: 9781410461100
Subjects: Fiction; Large type books; Criminals; Gangsters
Description: In 1944, after Al Capone has been released from prison, J. Edgar Hoover assigns an FBI junior agent to insinuate himself into Capone's life, in the guise of a Catholic priest, so that Hoover can nail his mob confederates. Suffering the neurological effects of syphilis, Capone is alternately lucid -- full of the passion and energy that fueled his rise to the pinnacle of crime -- and a rambling, ranking, broken shell of a man released from prison to die at home.