The Untouchables The author of this book was Eliot Ness. He was a prohibition agent given the special assignment of cracking down on the Chicago mob and illegal liquor sales. He was six feet tall, 180 pounds. Graduated in the top third of his class in both highschool and at the University of Chicago. Both his parents were from Norway, and he was raised in the traditional way. His reasoning behind writing this book was to …showed first 75 words of 578 total…

…showed last 75 words of 578 total…involved. It was interesting to learn how and where they would set up their breweries and how they would transport the alcohol. I enjoyed this book immensely. It was written in good story format and for it accurately accounting history, it wasn’t boring to read. It gave historical information in a form other than a textbook or encyclopedia. It had a good plot, which kept me reading to see what was going to happen.