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The dramatic final moments of the legendary outlaw’s career – retold by the world’s master storyteller, Jack Higgins.Early March 1934, America’s most notorious criminal makes his spectacular escape from Lake County Jail, Indiana. Three months later, John Dillinger, the last American outlaw, is gunned down by FBI agents outside a movie theatre in Chicago.But what really happened during Dillinger’s final months of liberty?As the fugitive makes a desperate break for the Mexican border, master thriller writer Jack Higgins takes up the story, following Dillinger into the savage hands of his new captors. Where love is as elusive as a pardon. And the price paid for freedom is blood…

&quot;Paul Maccabee&#39;s <strong>John Dillinger Slept Here</strong> is not just one of the best books ever written about Minneapolis-St. Paul, it is one of the best books of local history I have ever read&mdash;about any city anywhere on Earth. While writing <em>Public Enemies</em> I kept it on my desk at all times. I daresay one cannot call himself a real Minnesotan if you haven't read it. The book is just that darned good.&quot;&emdash;Bryan Burrough, author of <em>Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and Birth of the FBI, 1933-34</em>, the basis for <em>Public Enemies</em>, the movie starring Johnny Depp<br><br>
This book is based on more than 100,000 pages of FBI files and wiretaps, prison and police records, and mob confessions. Interviews with 250 crime victims, policemen, gun molls, and family members of criminals bring these public enemies to life. Crime historian Paul Maccabee takes you inside the bank robberies, gangland assassinations, and police intrigue of St. Paul's 1920s and 1930s gangster era. You'll also find Crooks&#39; Tour maps and more than 130 rare FBI, police, and family photographs.<br><br>
Praise for <strong>John Dillinger Slept Here</strong>:<br><br>
&quot;A landmark study of gangland crime.&quot;&emdash;William J. Helmer, author of <em>Dillinger: The Untold Story</em><br><br>
&quot;Maccabee is an authority on his subject which makes John Dillinger Slept Here an enthralling read.&quot;&emdash;<em>St. Paul Pioneer Press</em>

This book picks up where The Desperate Ones: Canada’s Forgotten Outlaws left off. Here are more remarkable true stories about Canadian crimes and criminals – most of them tales that have been buried for years. The stories begin in colonial Newfoundland, with robbery and murder committed by the notorious Power Gang. As readers travel across the country and through time, they will meet the last two men to be hanged in Prince Edward Island, smugglers who made lake Champlain a battleground, a counterfeiter whose bills were so good they fooled even bank managers, and teenage girls who committed murder in their escape from jail. They will meet the bandits who plundered banks and trains in Eastern Canada and the West, and even the United States. Among them were Same Behan, a robber whose harrowing testimony about the brutal conditions in the Kingston Penitentiary may have brought about his untimely death in «The Hole»; and John «Red» Hamilton, the Canadian-born member of the legendary Dillinger gang.