Baby Face Nelson: Portrait of a Public Enemy
Steven Nickel & William J. Helmer
Using new information that comes from formerly classified FBI files, the Nelson who emerges from the pages of Baby Face Nelson: Portrait of a Public Enemy is a more paradoxical and interesting figure than one might expect. Lester Joseph Gillis—better known to the public and press of the 1930s as Baby Face Nelson—was one of a succession of public enemies who became addicted to crime in his youth and intoxicated with violence near the end of his life.
 | WILLIAM J. HELMER is the author of The Gun That Made the Twenties Roar and coauthor of Dillinger: The Untold Story and The Complete Public Enemy Almanac. He lives in Texas. |
| STEVEN NICKEL is a freelance writer who has written for the Cleveland Plain Dealer and has appeared on NBC’s Unsolved Mysteries, A&E’s Biography, and documentaries on the Discovery Channel and the History Channel. The author of Torso, he lives in Janesville, Wisconsin. |
$9.99, Paperback
ISBN-10: 1-58182-682-6 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 978-1-58182-682-1 (Paperback)
Paperback Available June 2009
