By 1932, Capone had intensified into Ness’ “obsession, consuming much of his time and energy.” His team of agents, known as the Untouchables, became as famous in crime-fighting as Capone was in perpetrating crime. Within a few years, they would become fierce antagonists, Capone a notorious mobster, Ness a law enforcement agent focused on ferreting out bootleggers, especially Capone.
While Ness was a college student, Capone was involved in one of the city’s major industries: crime. As award-winning mystery writer Collins ( Executive Order, 2017, etc.) and historian Schwartz ( Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles's War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake News, 2015, etc.) reveal, their careers soon vastly diverged. In 1923, Al Capone (1899-1947) and Eliot Ness (1903-1957) became neighbors on a residential street in Chicago. A gritty dual biography reveals the underworld of crime and corruption in 1920s and ’30s America.
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