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" Richard Cain was possibly the most corrupt police official in the history of Chicago." -- Federal Bureau of InvestigationHere is the dramatic story of Detective Richard Cain' s criminal career as revealed by his half-brother. Cain led a double life-- one as a well known cop who led raids that landed on the front pages, and the other as a " made man" in one of Chicago' s most notorious mafia crime families. Michael Cain weaves together years of research, interviews, family anecdotes, and rare documents to create a comprehensive biography of this complex, articulate, and self-contradictory criminal genius. In a story that reads like the plot of Martin Scorsese' s "The Departed," Cain played both ends against the middle to become a household name in Chicagoland and a notorious figure in both the Mob and the world of Chicago law enforcement. Eventually murdered in a cafe by two masked men wielding shotguns, he lived and died in a world of bloodshed and violence. Cain left behind a story so outlandish that he has even been accused of being involved in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Filled with fascinating and until-now unknown facts, "The Tangled Web" tells the full story of this one-man crime wave.Cain, Michael J. is the author of 'Tangled Web The Life and Death of Richard Cain - Chicago Cop and Mafia Hitman', published 2007 under ISBN 9781602390447 and ISBN 1602390444.
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