Fast cars and machine guns become vital tools for gangsters, including Al Capone's mob in Chicago. A German thief pioneers modern heist tactics before his violent death. And after a brutal massacre, J. Edgar Hoover changes the policies of the Bureau of Investigation to enable it to fight an unprecedented crime wave. All this happens while John Dillinger sits in prison. As his sentence winds down, he prepares to enter a whole new world.

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