Author

D Gordon Franks

 Dillinger and Youngblood's Wooden Gun

D Gordon Franks

Meet Herbert Youngblood, the man responsible for the infamous wooden gun escape from a supposedly escape-proof jail. The story begins with Youngblood being told by his soothsayer grandmother that he would be rich and famous. There are tales from the Deep South of lynching and torture that follow the young man North on his pursuit of wealth and fame.

​Set during the Prohibition Era, the journey involves miscegenation, bootlegging, carnage, bank robbery, and murder. Join Youngblood as he does indeed become rich and famous and the object of the largest manhunt the Nation had ever seen.

This is the story the F.B.I wishes was left untold!!​

Follow the trail of evidence that will lead you to the astonishing conclusion that Dillinger, with the complicity of J. Edgar Hoover, faked his own death. Learn part of the reason why Melvin Purvis later committed suicide.

​Think you know all there is to know about Dillinger? Read this book and learn just how wrong you were.