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John Dillinger

The Life and Death of America's First Celebrity Criminal

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By Dary Matera

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Best-selling author Dary Matera sets the Dillinger record straight, seventy years after the outlaw’s death. John Dillinger is an adrenaline-fueled narrative that reignites America’s fascination with the suave but deadly desperado who was the FBI’s first “Public Enemy.” Dubbed “The Jackrabbit” because of the way he leaped over bank cages and railings, Dillinger and his bank-robbing gang cut a criminal swath yet to be equaled. They became so famous in the 1930s that throngs of excited spectators would block the route to their getaway cars. When caught, Dillinger staged the most harrowing prison escapes imaginable — only to finally be betrayed by the infamous “Lady in Red.” John Dillinger brings to light new information, including bank robberies never before reported; detailed plans for major crimes that Dillinger nearly implemented; the revelation that the “Lady in Red” was actually a police plant; and the startling fact that John Dillinger was summarily executed by rogue FBI agents being manipulated by East Chicago detectives desperate to cover up widespread police corruption. With access to thousands of detailed accounts, and pages of telling photographs, Matera’s definitive book describes every robbery, shoot-out, and prison escape as though he choreographed them himself.

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On Sale
May 20, 2005
Page Count
448 pages
Publisher
Da Capo
ISBN-13
9780786715589

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Dary Matera

About the Author

Dary Matera is the author of 14 books, including the bestseller Are You Lonesome Tonight and Sterling’s Charles Manson: Conversations with a Killer, co-authored with Edward George. He’s worked closely with the FBI on such previous books as Quitting the Mob, The FBI’s Ten Most Wanted, and John Dillinger. His books have been featured on 20/20, 60 Minutes, 48 Hours, Primetime Live, Nightline, Good Morning America, Inside Edition, and CBS This Morning, among others. They have been reviewed and featured in The New York Times, The  Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, Time, People, Life, and many additional publications. Matera has appeared in more than a dozen TV documentaries featuring his book subjects, and on the TV series America: Fact or Fiction and William Shatner’s The UnXplained.

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