title: The Confessions of Al Capone: A Novel
author:  Loren D. Estleman 
description: From the always reliable Estleman comes this involving novel in which a low-level employee of the FBI is given a plum assignment: infiltrate the inner circle of Al Caponerecently released from Alcatrazand get as much information as he can about Capones fellow criminals. Peter Vasco is picked for the job because he has an entre into Capones world (his father once did some odd jobs for Capones gang), and posing as a priest, he quickly gains Capones confidence. He expected to get some good dirt on the man, but one thing Vasco didnt expect was that he would like Capone. This is really two books in one: the story of Vascos relationship with Capone, and Capones own story, told in his own (fictionalized) words. Estleman looks at the gangster with a compassionate eye, revealing him to be ruthless and violent, of course, but also to be a devoted family man with a deep, albeit ambiguous, moral core. Weve seen Capone before, in movies and in books, but we havent seen him like thisa textured human being for whom crime is a career but isnt necessarily what defines him. --David Pitt
zlib_text: **THE CONFESSIONS**
  
   **OF**
  
   **AL CAPONE**
  
  Loren D. Estleman
  
    
  
  A Tom Doherty Associates Book New York
  
  This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events
  portrayed in this novel are either products of the author's imagination or are
  used fictitiously.
  
  THE CONFESSIONS OF AL CAPONE
  
  Copyright © 2013 by Loren D. Estleman
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  Edited by James Frenkel
  
  A Forge Book Published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC 175 Fifth Avenue New
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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  
  Estleman, Loren D.
  
  The Confessions of Al Capone / Loren D. Estleman.—First edition, p. cm.
  
  "A Tom Doherty Associates book."
  
  ISBN 978-0-7653-3119-9 (hardcover)
  
  ISBN 978-1-4299-4325-3 (e-book)
  
  1\. Capone, Al, 1899-1947—Fiction. 2. Criminals—Illinois—Chicago—Fiction.
  
  3\. Gangsters—Illinois—Chicago—Fiction. 4. Biographical fiction. I. Ti