<p>Harry Pierpont and John Dillinger were die-hard and deadly partners who made national headlines with their daring bank hold-ups and gun battles -- and they had a lot of laughs while they were at it. They were known as the Dillinger Gang but at its heart was "Handsome Harry" Pierpont -- tough, fearless, intelligent, and sworn to live by no law but his own. Presented as his intimate "confessions," Harry's story takes us from his teenage days as a small-time crook to his fateful meeting with the equally young Dillinger to the pinnacle of his notoriety, and to his final hours in the penitentiary death house.</p> <p>Crafted in James Carlos Blake's signature style of fast-paced violence, sizzling sex, and darkly raucous humor, <em>Handsome Harry</em> re-creates a thrilling chapter from the chronicles of American crime.</p>