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Book Review of The Flesh, the Blood, and the Fire

The Flesh, the Blood, and the Fire
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They were the one real failure in Eliot Ness' crime- fighting career. It began late in the summer of 1935 when part of a human body washed up on the shore of Euclid Beach Park. Over the next four years a dozen more bodies multilated, decapitated and drained of blood were found along the railroad tracks and waterways of Cleveland, Ohio. With the whole city gripped by terror safty director Eliot Ness instituted the largest manhunt in Cleveland History..........