Description
This book recounts a well-known turf war raged all the way through Prohibition. Charlie Birger’s oversized ambitions brought him from New York to southern Illinois looking for fortune as a bootlegger. He soon discovered that his dream to be even bigger than Al Capone
confronted a couple of hurdles-together with the vicious Shelton Brothers and Helen Holbrook, a gorgeous, alcoholic socialite from Shawneetown, whose simultaneous affairs with Birger and Carl Shelton fueled a bloody and abnormal gang war.