Pretty Boy Author:Bill Brooks ising out of the harvests and oil fields of the Oklahoma dustbowl Steinbeck captured in The Grapes of Wrath, Pretty Boy Floyd became the most wanted man in America by the newly formed FBI and by the women who loved him. While Bonnie and Clyde were tearing up the country robbing and shooting their way across the southwest, Charley was robbing ban... more »ks from Kansas City to Ohio. The local newspapers were full of stories about guys like John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, Machine Gun Kelley, and Al Capone, but none of them had what Pretty Boy had: uncommon good luck, a taste for fancy clothes, fast cars, and beautiful dames. From the opening page to the last chapter, we hear Charley, his pals, and his family tell us the story of Pretty Boy Floyd. Written with the same combination of lyricism and earthly prose that characterized The Stone Garden: The Epic Life of Billy the Kid, Bill Brooks plays the medium for Pretty Boy, his partners, his lovers, and his enemies.« less