The UntouchablesThe 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. |
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| Title | The Untouchables |
| Authors | Eliot Ness, Oscar Fraley |
| Contributor | Oscar Fraley |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Messner, 1957 |
| ISBN | 0671644491, 9780671644499 |
| Length | 256 pages |
| Subjects | › › Fiction / General Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural Social Science / Criminology True Crime / General |
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