- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Coronet Books; New edition edition (Sep 1 1987)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0340416653
- ISBN-13: 978-0340416655
- Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 118 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,823,300 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The Untouchables is the gripping true story of the team of men who broke the back of the vicious Chicago crime mob and its stranglehold on the nation, told by the man who orchestrated the effort. Enormously successful as a long-running TV series, The Untouchables should leap onto the bestseller lists when released as a major motion picture in June, starring Robert DeNiro and Sean Connery. Reissue.
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Cigar smoke hung in a heavy blue haze over the long polished table. Read the first page
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Ness does tend to exaggerate a bit,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Untouchables (Hardcover)
I've read this book and I think that Elliot Ness did exaggerate a bit. Yes, he may have been in the team set out to capture Capone, he may even have been the group leader but in the book he does exaggerate his bravery and the risks he took. I would not recommend this book if you don't like reading lies.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Untouchables (Hardcover)
Some have complained that this book is fiction. I am ashamed of the people who said that Eliot Ness was an old drunk who captured a few beer stills. They obviously didn't read the book. Eliot Ness told sportswriter Oscar Fraley that he didn't want any fiction but Fraley convinced Ness that fiction was needed. This describes the life of Eliot Ness in Chicago. One must look at this through an eye of skeptiscm. But this is truly excellent reading. Most of it is true but the estimates that Ness and Fraley made are somewhat exagerrated. But otherwise this is a story which will entice your senses and will make you so thankful you weren't a mobster in the 30's
2.0 out of 5 stars
Don't Believe It!,
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This review is from: The Untouchables (Hardcover)
Story Behind the Story: In the late '50's, shortly before his death, an aging burnt-out drunk who had once busted up a few stills in Chicago hoodwinked a sportswriter with tall tales of how he had years earlier destroyed the Capone mob (which was still in business at the time, even though Al had been dead for ten years by then). Eliot Ness really had little or nothing to do with sending Capone to prison and his book is more fiction than fact but it is entertaining and at least more factual than the TV series and movie it later inspired.
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