Synopsis

Chicago in 1932 was a city with an insatiable appetite for alcohol, consuming eighty-six thousand gallons daily—a staggering thirty-two million annually. The vast majority of this was cheap beer and illicit liquor, yet a small fraction—just one percent—consisted of the finest Canadian scotch. The men of Nitti, armed with tommy guns, opened fire on a rival speakeasy, the Blue Lion, which dared to serve the prized Canadian scotch. Ness and his team launched an investigation into the bloody afterm