Whispering Wires: The Tragic Tale of an American Bootlegger

Philip Metcalfe has described his role as an author as that of a "painter who endows a lost world with the personality and the dailiness it once possessed." In Whispering Wires, Metcalfe tells the story of Roy Olmstead, one of the principal bootleggers in Prohibition-era Seattle, and the first major federal court case concerning the use of wiretaps. He writes, "Set into motion then was a constellation of conditions that no one could have foretold. Prohibition had produced a shadow universe governed by an aberrant moral algebra." This historical narrative follows the city officials, Prohibition agents, and rumrunners who chased, evaded, and double-crossed each other during one of Seattle's most thrilling eras.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Amy Ross
Published: 08/25/2021
ISBN: 9780578980225
Pages: 370
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.82d