Meticulously researched and compellingly told, Defending the Dillinger Gang provides us a slice of history that has for too long gone unrevealed. The characters are richfemale attorneys battling misogyny, outlaws who would become legendaryand D.M. Testa brings them to vibrant life, from the criminal culture of characters like John Dillinger to the courtroom wrangling of the legal protagonists and antagonists. It can be cliché to say that a book is history that reads like the best of fiction, but in D.M. Testas hands, that is the case with Defending the Dillinger Gang.Gary Craig, author of Seven Million: A Cop, A Priest, a Soldier for the IRA and the Still-Unsolved Rochester Brinks Heist D.M. Testa encapsulated a forgotten period in history and brought Jessie Levy and Bess Robbins back from the veil that time itself created. Two women that were far ahead of their time, and not afraid to outwit men in the same field as their own. The complexity of the corruption involved in the handling of the Dillinger gang in the court system is mind boggling, as the author has so in adeptly researched. Both Levy and Robbins, with scant means or promise of monetary gain, believed that even these men and women deserved a fair shake from the justice system.Lori Hyde, co-author Chasing Dillinger: Police Captain Matt Leach, J. Edgar Hoover and the Rivalry to Capture Public Enemy No. 1.
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