it tells about Hoover to an extent, it's more of a story of the previously unnamed agents that were on the frontlines to the war on crime.

In the move Johnny Depp will play Dillinger and Christian Bale will play FBI agent Melvin Purvis.


Reading the book you really get the vibe that J. Edgar Hoover was a "screamin queen"....he absolutely despised Ma Barker and Machine Gun Kelly's wife Kathryn describing them as vile and evil criminal masterminds.....when in all actuality they were totally innocent with the exception of knowing what their family members did for a living.