Description
“A STORY THAT NO OTHER AUTHOR COULD HAVE PUT
TOGETHER . . . Roemer [is] The united states’s so much embellished FBI agent.”
–Chicago Tribune
For 40 years Tony Accardo was once The united states’s so much bad felony. He minimize his enamel at the Chicago mob wars of Capone and Elliot Ness. He were given his nickname “Joe Batters” for killing males with a baseball bat. Because the our bodies piled up, Capone’s youngest capo murdered and schemed his approach to the highest.
William Roemer was once the primary FBI agent to stand Tony “The Massive Tuna” Accardo. Now, Roemer tells the tale that handiest he may just inform: the offers, the hits, the double-crosses, and the ability performs that reached from the Windy Town to Hollywood and to New York. Drawing on mystery wiretaps and within data, ACCARDO chronicles bloodshed and mayhem for greater than six a long time–as Roemer duels towards essentially the most robust don of all of them. . . .
“Roemer brings the truth of arranged crime house to us.”
–Boston Herald
“A large, sprawled out account that serves as anecdotal historical past of arranged crime.”
–Kirkus Evaluations
