A review by rackety
Get Capone: The Secret Plot That Captured America's Most Wanted Gangster by Jonathan Eig

medium-paced

4.0

This book is well-researched, thorough, and well-organized. I found the author's "clever" similes tiresome, but that was not my main issue with it, which is that the subtitle is really misleading. It does discuss the effort to prosecute Capone on tax charges, but I wouldn't call it a "plot," and there was no issue of "capturing" him as his whereabouts were only occasionally unknown. Even more to the point, the successful prosecution that put Capone in prison for most of the 1930s is just an organic part of what is really a biography of Capone, so the subtitle comes off as a dishonest marketing ploy. This is certainly a worthwhile biography, but if you are looking for a book-length focus on the tax case against him, that's not what this is.