The Dillinger Days

By: John Toland

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

For 13 violent months in the 1930s, John Dillinger and his gang swept through the Midwest. The criminals of the Depression robbed almost at will, as the Indiana State Police had only 41 members, including clerks and typists. Dillinger's daring escapes at Crown Point jail or through the withering machine gun fire of FBI agents at Little Bohemia Lodge, along with his countless bank robberies, excited the imagination of a despondent country. He eluded the lawmen of a half-dozen states and the growing power of the FBI, earning him the dubious honor of Public Enemy Number One and captivating Americans to the present day. His brief but significant career is vividly chronicled here in extraordinary detail, as is the entire outlaw era of Baby Face Nelson, Bonnie and Clyde, Ma Barker, and Machine Gun Kelly. John Toland conducted hundreds of interviews; his research took him through 34states, into the cells where Dillinger was confined, and into every bank he robbed.

The Dillinger Days is the inside account of a desperate and determined war between the law and the lawless, a struggle that did not end until a unique set of circumstances led to Dillinger's bloody death outside a Chicago movie house.

©2017 John Toland (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

overall a pretty straightforward account.

while I loved the book overall, the fact that the narrator felt the need to say coopay instead of coupe drove me absolutely crazy.

Good story telling

The author tells the history in a sequential method for the most part, where you see things as they happened and not just as they ended up. You see the police fumbling around when they were fumbling, you see attempts and failures.
Narrator is fantastic for this.
The book can be slow at times with how detailed it is

Good

The voice is pretty cheesy. Great story overall. The book was pretty accurate no myth.

Riveting book!

I recently saw the movie on John Dillinger, and so when I saw a book entitled The Dillinger Days, I had to check it out. Marvelous book from beginning to end. I would highly recommend it. All thumbs up.

very good!

I liked this book . I have a interest in John Dillinger and the depression gangs!