Now a major motion picture starring Johnny Depp as Dillinger and Christian Bale.

In 1933 a crime wave blazed across America. Fuelled by cheap liquor and fast cars, gangs of chancers, bank robbers, gunslingers and their molls cut a murderous, cash-snatching dash through the US – and became legends. Among them were homicidal Baby Face Nelson, outlaws Bonnie and Clyde, cranky hillbilly Ma Baker and, most deadly of all, the suave gentleman criminal John Dillinger.This is the breakneck story of America’s most wanted, and their nemesis: J. Edgar Hoover and his strong-arm law enforcers, the agents of the FBI. Using shocking secret files and eyewitness accounts, Public Enemies reveals the facts about the crime spree that shook America.

Reviews

'Entrancing . . . definitive . . . a wild and amazing story' Washington Post 

'Seriously exciting . . . crackles and pops with dialogue so outrageous that you suspect a dozen scriptwriters have worked on it, but every word is true' Spectator

'Excellent true crime . . . brims with vivid portraiture' The New York Times

'It makes a good tale, and Burrough tells it well, in all its horrible detail' Literary Review

Author Biography

Bryan Burrough is the author of Dragonfly: Nasa and the Crisis Aboard Mir, Vendetta: American Express and the Smearing of Edmond Safra and (with John Helyar) Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco. He lives in New Jersey.