From one of the best crime writers at work today Michael Connelly comes a fast, funny, violent new noir crime classic—a Coen Brothers movie come to life. He has been compared to Lehane, Ellroy, and Pelecanos, but Ace Atkinss rich, raucous, passionate blend of historical novel and crime story is all his own and never more so than in Infamous. In July 1933, the gangster known as George Machine Gun Kelly staged the kidnapping-for-ransom of an Oklahoma oilman. He would live to regret it. Kelly was never the sharpest knife in the drawer, and what started clean soon became messy, as two of his partners cut themselves into the action a determined former Texas Ranger makes tracking Kelly his mission and Kellys wife, ever alert to her own self-interest, starts playing both ends against the middle.
