4.0
In the history of crime the FBI tagged only four men as Public Enemy No.1 - John DIllinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson and Canadian-born Alvin Karpis. All but Karpis met violent ends. In 1936 the FBI arrested Karpis in New Orleans. He received a 'life' sentence on a kidnapping charge to be served in the mysterious superprison in San Francisco Bay - Alcatraz. For thirty years Alcatraz housed America's most dangerous criminals, and inside the walls and cells bloody death, sexual perversity, and the brutality of guards were commonplace. Karpis describes the black hole - solitary confinement - and tells of the violent deaths of the cons who failed in their bids for freedom. On the Rock is Karpis's personal story of the desperate and insane who lead a timeless existence deep in the rock of Alcatraz Island.
Full of lurid descriptions of day to day life in a notorious prison, this book is actually quite entertaining though gruesome to the core.
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Language:
English
Length:
318 pages
Author:
Alvin Karpis
