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From "among the greatest crime writers at the office today" (Michael Connelly) comes a quick,f unny, chaotic fresh noir crime vintage-a Coen Brothers film come alive. He's been when compared with Lehane, Pelecanos, and Ellroy, but Ace Atkinsis wealthy, crazy, passionate mixture of offense tale and historic book never much more than in Notorious and is all their own. In July 1933, the gangster referred to as George "Machine-Gun" Kelly staged the kidnapping-for-ransom of an Oklahoma oil­man. He'd live to regret it.