The Secret Six: The Rise and Fall of Chicago's Greatest Vigilantes

In winter 1930, an unprecedented force for good emerged from the chaos of crime—ridden Chicago: The Secret Six. Supported by the Windy City's richest and most powerful businesspeople, the vigilantes took on extortionists, bombers, bank robbers, kidnappers, and eventually Al Capone himself. Using the latest crime—fighting technologies of the era, the Secret Six caught dirty cops, won convictions in cases large and small, and helped launch Eliot Ness and the Untouchables. And when Capone went...