In 1929, Eliot Ness put away Al "Scarface" Capone and became the biggest living legend this side of law and order. Now it's 1935. With The Untouchables and Prohibition behind him and the Great Depression falling darkly across the nation, Ness arrives in Cleveland to straighten out a crooked city. An anonymous ring of bent cops is dealing in vice, graft, gambling and racketeering, overlorded by a mysterious top cop known as "the outside chief". But between corrupt politicians, jealous colleagues, a parasitic reporter and two blondes with nothing in common, Ness has big troubles pulling the sheets off the bed of blue vipers. Until the outside chief makes a move, and Ness moves just a bit quicker...
- ISBN10 0727862421
- ISBN13 9780727862426
- Publish Date 29 April 2005 (first published 31 December 1987)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 August 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Severn House Publishers Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 240
- Language English