NO LAW BUT THEIR OWN

Regency, Evanston, Illinois, 1963, 1st, paperback original.  MMPB, 158 pages followed by ads.  Very good; wraps have light edge and cover wear, light reading creases on spine; outer page block tinted red.  Binding sound; interior clean and unmarked with tanned pages.  ‘Lafayette Baker, Abraham Lincoln’s Chief of Secret Service, who ran the Union to suit himself and not the Constitution; a daring spy, a great spy-catcher … and, just possibly, the man who found his President getting too much in his way; certainly the man who obscured every possible clue to the still wide-open question of just who shot Lincoln and why.  Cap Streeter, the man who accidently created the fabulously valued land on which the Chicago’s golden Lakefront properties stand – or so he claimed – and raised an army that fought pitched battles in America’s second-largest city to back up his demand for independence.  Roaring Joe Boyle, the American who made the railroads run for the Czar at the end of his fist and boot, and who made those same trains roll for the Communists.  He just didn’t give a dam, as long as the trains ran.  Right or wrong, they knew what they wanted – and got it!’ (from rear wrap)