Like the old style outlaws, except that he used Tommy guns instead of six-shooters, John Dillinger blazed a trail of death and destruction across the country, rising, in fourteen months time, from obscurity to national ill-fame.

Insanely reckless, contemptuous of careful planning, he and his gang blasted their way into bank after bank, killing tellers, guards, cops, and innocent by-standers without hesitation or remorse.

Here is a first-hand, exciting account of the wild career of a man who recruited his gunmen from the ranks of the most vicious killers of the Thirties and his girl friends from the country's whorehouses.

Published in July, 1961.
© 1961 by Ovid Demaris

The Depression Thirties were bad years for banks as a wave of lawlessness swept across the country. No bank and no town was safe from the  ruthless depredations of trigger-happy mobsters who looted and killed with terrifying efficiency.

Among the top bandits of those times was "Baby Face" Nelson - icy-eyed, fearless and ready to blast a Tommy gun at the twitch of a victim's eyelash.

Blazing a hot trail from state to state, making free with the decorative young wantons who found it thrilling to give themselves to mobsters, Nelson carved himself a history-making niche in the bloody annals of crime.

Published in September, 1961
© 1961 by Steve Thurman