Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN num: 9781929998692
ISBN number: 1929998694
Label: Oni Press
Manufacturer: Oni Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 112
Printing Date: November 05, 2003
Publishing house: Oni Press
Sale Popularity Level: 1302855
Studio: Oni Press
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Kansas City, 1933. Frank Nash is a petty criminal who has been pinched by the Feds and is being brought back into town by train. When FBI agent Reed Vetterli heads down to Union Station to meet Nash and his uniformed escort, he has no reason to suspect that there will be any action. Neither does Charles Thompson, a reporter sent down to the station just to see what the fuss is for. Little do they know that Frank's buddy, Vern Miller, is going to bust him out. Nash may not be a big time player, but he's still earned some loyalty. The resulting clash ends in a massacre, with no one knowing who pulled the trigger very first - or even who pulled it at all. Rumour has it that Pretty Boy Floyd was on the scene, but no one knows for sure, and J. Edgar Hoover doesn't particularly care. He just wants Floyd's butt in an electric chair, and when Vetterli, Miller, and Thompson find themselves in the way of Hoover's justice, they can't duck for cover fast enough.
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This is a very worthwhile read for anyone who is interested in the Depression era, particularly in gangsters of the period. The fact that it is a "graphic novel" may be distracting to some, but nevertheless, it is a well crafted story that tells the events of of the massacre at Kansas City's Union Station that allowed J. Edgar Hoover to gain the publicity and clout he needed to fully arm his G-men and be given a free hand in law enforcement from that day forward. FBI men even yesterday will still swear that Pretty Boy Floyd was at the scene, despite a good amount of evidence to the contrary. IF one is to nitpick, the only failings of this book is that by creating fictional characters and putting some real people in places they were not (which the author Ande Parks admits in his notes), it undoes the very thing it seems to set out to do, which is do an authentic, factual retelling of the true story. Overall, though, very good.
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