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In the summer of 1933 an amazing group of chancers, misfits and psychopaths took to the American road. Fuelled by the Depression, fast cars and cheap guns, these freelance gangsters terrorized a vast swathe of banks and drugstores across the Midwest. Bonnie and Clyde, Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly, Baby Face Nelson, the Barker gang, Pretty Boy Floyd and others went on a crime spree that turned them into legends in their own - generally quite brief - lifetimes. As they tore across state lines, mocking the police and amassing fortunes, the gangsters had no idea that in Washington their nemesis was forming: J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. "Public Enemies" is the sensational story of the outlaws whose exploits became folklore, and the savage, myth-making response of those who hunted them down.

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Book category Books in English Biography & True Stories True stories True crime

• Full title: Public Enemies [Film Tie-in]
• Subtitle: The True Story of America's Greatest Crime Wave
• Author: Bryan Burrough
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 640
• EAN: 9780141037943
• ISBN: 0141037946
• ID: 04026429
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Weight: 453 g
• Dimensions: 198 × 129 × 32 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. August 2008

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