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Black Hats: A Novel of Wyatt Earp and Al Capone
Black Hats A Novel of Wyatt Earp and Al Capone Author:Patrick Culhane, Max Allan Collins Legendary lawman Wyatt Earp straps on his six-shooter to battle a new breed of bad man in a new land -- rising gangster Al Capone and his machine-gun toting killers on the streets of New York City. — It's the 1920s, the glittering jazz age, and the beginning of the blood-soaked prohibition-era. The wild west and the gunfight at the OK Corral ... more »are fading memories, even for aging lawman Wyatt Earp, who is toiling in Los Angeles as a private eye and a technical consultant on cowboy movies. When Doc Holliday's son, who is running a glitzy nightclub in Manhattan, is targeted by the mob, Wyatt gladly leaves the tamed west for the wild east to defend him, pitting himself against a brutal, young gangster named Al Capone« less
Tough western lawmen legends in an big east coast city? Supriseing premise, but workable! Author was able to sucessfully integrate an authentic western feel to tough street gang scenes. All and all likeable.