Touhy vs. Capone: The Chicago Outfit's Biggest Frame Job

By Don Herion

Book Overview

When beat cop Don Herion and his partner responded to shots fired on December 16, 1959, they didn't know that they had heard the final, fatal salvo in one of the most contorted conflicts in the history of organized crime. A canny bootlegger, Roger Touhy had survived a gang war with Al Capone, false imprisonment for a faked kidnapping, a prison break and recapture. His story dragged in all the notorious men of his day: Frank Nitti, John Jake the Barber Factor, Mayor Cermak, Melvin Purvis, J. Edgar Hoover, Baby Face Nelson, Dan Tubbo Gilbert, FDR and JFK. As Touhy's life was ending on his sister's front porch, Herion's quest to unravel the tangle of events that led to his assassination had just begun.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625858930
• ISBN13: 9781625858931
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"