LOU AND THE CHICAGO OUTFIT

The next morning, the papers are full of a quiet North Shore mansion robbery — millions in cash, gold, and jewels, no police report, no leads. Lou, the bartender who knows everyone but belongs to no one, is suddenly sitting on the score of a lifetime. He doesn't ask where it came from. He doesn't ask where it's going. He just waits.

But the men who pulled the job broke the only rule that mattered: they didn't ask permission. As the Outfit closes in — first with smiles and small talk, then with a knock from the FBI — Lou has to do the one thing that's kept guys like him alive for decades: see nothing, hear nothing, say less than nothing.

Told secondhand, bar-stool style, by a nephew who swears every word of it is true, Lou and the Chicago Outfit is a sharp, fast-moving slice of Chicago crime lore — about money too hot to touch, and the quiet men who knew better than to touch it anyway.

A work of fiction.