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In winter 1930, an unprecedented force for good emerged from the chaos of crime-ridden Chicago: The Secret Six. Supported by the Windy City's richest and most powerful businesspeople, the vigilantes took on extortionists, bombers, bank robbers, kidnappers, and eventually Al Capone himself. Using the latest crime-fighting technologies of the era, the Secret Six caught dirty cops, won convictions in cases large and small, and helped launch Eliot Ness and the Untouchables. And when Capone went to prison, he credited the group for bringing him down. The Secret Six inspired a movie featuring Clark Gable, testified before Congress, and wrote authoritatively about crime for the national press. Quickly, cities throughout America began emulating the Secret Six with their own vigilante forces.
But there was a dark side to the heroics and international praise. Wealth, unchecked power, and the raw spirit of vigilantism corrupted the Secret Six from their inception. They victimized the innocent, tortured the guilty, and bragged about it, and after three years of lies, mistakes and misdeeds that were as laughable as they were tragic, the effort collapsed in disgrace.
Nearly forgotten, The Secret Six brings this group back to life for the first time with the full, true story about what happens when good men in a large, chaotic city take the law into their own hands.
Contents
Introduction
Part I: Damsel in a Burning City
1. The Case of the Extorted Debutante
2. A City on Fire
3. The Tenth Man
4. A Burning City Sparks a Nation's Hope
Part II: First Cases of the Secret Six
5. Early Impact (and a Little Lying)
6. The Truth of the Secret Six
7. Shooting in the Dark
8. The Case of the Extorted Congressman
9. The New Top Cop, and the Case of the Pinochle Shootout
10. The Case of the Queer Actor
11. The Passion of William Speer Kuhn Jr.
12. Nolle Prossed
Part III: The Secret Six vs. Al Capone
13. Al Capone Comes Home
14. Al Capone Goes South
15. Al Capone, Miami, and the "Chicago Plan"
16. Col. Randolph Meets the Kingpin
Part IV: The War Continues
17. The Best Cases of 1931
18. The Best Cases of 1932
19. The Secret Six Conjures a National Kidnapping Monopoly
20. The Secret Six vs. the Kidnappers
Part V: Lord of the Vigilantes
21. A Brief History of Vigilantism
22. A Modest Proposal
23. The Secret Six Were Neither
Part VI: The Secret Six and the Cases of Infamy
24. The Case of the Deal with the Devil
25. The Case of the Crooked Cops
26. The Secret Six vs. Swanson
27. The Secret Six on Trial
28. The Case of the Two Bombs
29. The End of the Secret Six
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
