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Gangbuster: One Man's Battle Against Crime, Corruption, and the Klan Audiobook
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At the height of the roaring 1920s, the ex-frontier town of Denver, Colorado, emerged from the postwar boom as the future of the American city. But the slick façade of progress and opportunity masked a murky stew of organized crime, elaborate swindles, and widespread government corruption.
Rookie district attorney Phillip Van Cise was already making national headlines for a new brand of law enforcement. Employing military intelligence tools he'd developed during the Great War, Van Cise crippled the criminal empire of Lou Blonger, an ex-lawman who had risen from petty scam artist to master of the Big Con. But Van Cise had even darker, more malevolent forces on his radar.
The Ku Klux Klan had emerged as a shockingly mainstream middle-class movement, all while claiming to protect true American values. Utilizing his pioneering surveillance techniques, Van Cise was determined to expose the Invisible Empire from within.
Gripping and exhaustively researched, this prescient chronicle of Phillip Van Cise's spectacular career as a feared gangbuster taking on organized crime, the KKK, and corruption at the highest levels of government is a cautionary tale that mirrors our tumultuous times.
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“An exceedingly good story about an exceedingly bad time. Shockingly, Prendergast informs us, the white-sheeted night riders at one point controlled the mayor’s office, the governor’s office, congressional seats and a whole host of judges, lawyers, and police officers.”
— Colorado Springs Gazette
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“A vivid mural of a place in time…that is, by turns, terrifying and motivational.”
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“Vaughan narrates with consistency…He keeps emotions in check, never imitating anyone except for one outstanding part in which he describes a rally whose audience contains a heckler.”
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“Prendergast has captured Van Cise’s bold life and clamorous times with imagination, verve, and razor-sharp reportorial instincts—illuminating a corrupt and dangerous urban netherworld that’s fascinating to read about.”
— Hampton Sides, New York Times bestselling author
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About Alan Prendergast
Alan Prendergast is an author whose nonfiction crime book, The Poison Tree, was a finalist for the Edgar Award. His award-winning journalism has appeared in Rolling Stone, Outside, the Los Angeles Times, and USA Today, as well as The Best American Sports Writing and The Best American Crime Reporting. He is a senior contributor for Denver's weekly newspaper, Westword, and part-time professor at Colorado College.
About Gabriel Vaughan
Nicole Poole is an AudioFile Earphones Award–winning audiobook narrator, commercial voice talent, veteran soundpainter, and owner of the O. Gail Poole Collection. She is also a staunch supporter of the arts and travels around the globe with a mobile recording studio.