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A rousing, suspenseful debut book - True Grit fulfills Catch Me IF YOU Can - predicated on the neglected true story of an Robin Hood of the American frontier who pulls off the first successful kidnapping for ransom in US background. Once the most wanted man in the us, Pat Crowe is a neglected folk hero who captivated the country as an outlaw for financial justice. World, Chase Me Down resurrects him, showing the electrifying tale of the first great offense of the last hundred years: how in 1900 the out-of-work former butcher kidnapped the teenage child of Omaha's wealthiest meatpacking tycoon for a ransom of $25,000 in gold and then burgled, safecracked, and connection jumped his way across the country and beyond, inciting a manhunt that was dubbed "the enjoyment of the country" and a showdown in the court docket of public view between the haves and have-nots - all the while plotting a return to the girl he never quit loving. As if channeling Draw Twain and Charles Portis, Andrew Hilleman has given us a persona who's bawdy and soulful, grizzled, salty, and hard-drinking, and with a voice as memorable as that of Lucy Marsden in Alan Gurganus' Oldest Living Confederate Widow Says All - an antihero you can't help rooting for.
