Blood, Guns & Valentines

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From the slums of Brooklyn to the luxurious hotels and nightclubs of Chicago, legendary mobster Al Capone took a meteoric rise to the highest levels of the criminal underworld at only twenty-five years of age. He became one of the wealthiest men in the world, with scores of speakeasies, brothels, and gambling houses under his control and hundreds of gunmen ready to do his bidding. But in spite of his vast power, Capone was a man who lived in fear – haunted by a vengeful spirit from St. Valentine’s Day 1929. Journey back to Roaring 20s Chicago and discover the world of Al Capone and the gangs that made the city streets run red with blood. This book unravels the haunting of Al Capone and other gangland ghosts of Chicago, depicting a time of jazz, bootleg liquor, and rattling tommy guns as it brings to life the mob violence and brutal revenge from the Prohibition era. Enter the world of Big Jim Colosimo, John Torrio, the “Terrible” Gennas, Dion O’Banion, and of course, Al Capone, and explore the rise and fall of Capone and the various gangs of Chicago, the Beer Wars, police and political corruption, deadly shootings, “one-way rides,” mob assassinations, and other terrifying events that left lingering spirits in their wake.