Her husband behind bars, Imogene begins an affair with Dodge. With the fledgling FBI on the case, Remus is quickly imprisoned for violating the Volstead Act.

It's a decision with deadly consequences. Eager to prove them wrong, she dispatches her best investigator, Franklin Dodge, to look into his empire. Willebrandt's bosses at the Justice Department hired her right out of law school, assuming she'd pose no real threat to the cozy relationship they maintain with Remus. Pioneering prosecutor Mabel Walker Willebrandt is determined to bring him down. By the summer of 1921, Remus owns 35 percent of all the liquor in the United States. The press calls him 'King of the Bootleggers,' writing breathless stories about the Gatsby-esque events he and his glamorous second wife, Imogene, host at their Cincinnati mansion, with party favors ranging from diamond jewelry for the men to brand-new cars for the women. Within two years he's a multi-millionaire. In the early days of Prohibition, long before Al Capone became a household name, a German immigrant named George Remus quits practicing law and starts trafficking whiskey. NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST HISTORY BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SMITHSONIAN.“Gatsby-era noir at its best.”-Erik LarsonĪn ID Book Club Selection The epic true crime story of the most successful bootlegger in American history and the murder that shocked the nation, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy.

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