Eliot Ness The Real Story

"Eliot Ness" is the true story of how a young Prohibition agent suddenly founds himself thrust into the midst of Chicago's gangland as the director of a special team with a daring mission: cut off the economic lifeblood of Al Capone's criminal empire by destroying his breweries. When Ness and his investigators turned down bribes, the are aptly labeled the "Untouchables" by a newspaper columnist. After Chicago, Ness continued to bring the same aggressive style of law enforcement to Cleveland, where crooked cops had allowed organized crime to flourish. Ness zeroed in on the gambling dens, prostitution houses, and extortion rings that have taken over the city. Ness cleaned up Cleveland and then turned his attention to federal service and the business world. Eliot Ness is a biography based on more than three years of interviews, investigation, and exhaustive research. After his career was ended, his experiences were published under the title "The Untouchables", and eventually became a very popular television series. But the television series bore scant relation to the true story of "Eliot Ness," for example, in his entire campaign against Al Capone, Ness never in a gunfight, never had to raise and fire his gun against another human being. "Eliot Ness" is a splendid biography and will be of intense interest to anyone interested in the life and times of a remarkable federal law enforcement officer during one of the country's most turbulent and lawless times.Heimel, Paul W. is the author of 'Eliot Ness The Real Story' with ISBN 9780965582407 and ISBN 096558240X.