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JACK HIGGINS The world's master thriller writer Now retold in fiction - the dramatic final moments of a legendary outlaw's career DILLINGER Early in March 1934, America's most notorious criminal makes his spectacular escape from Lake County Jail, Indiana. Three months later, John Dillinger, the last American outlaw, is gunned down by FBI officers outside a movie theatre in Chicago. But what really happened during Dillinger's final months of liberty? As the fugitive makes a desperate break for the Mexican border, thriller master Jack Higgins takes up the story. Following the outlaw into the savage hands of his new captors. Where love is as elusive as a pardon. And the price paid for freedom is blood ... 'Our prime exponent of the popular novel' Sunday Express - from the back cover -
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