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At the height of the roaring 1920s the exfrontier town of Denver Colorado emerged from the postwar boom as the future of the American city But the slick faade of progress and opportunity masked a murky stew of organized crime elaborate swindles and widespread government corruption

Rookie district attorney Phillip Van Cise was already making national headlines for a new brand of law enforcement Employing military intelligence tools hed developed during the Great War Van Cise crippled the criminal empire of Lou Blonger an exlawman who had risen from petty scam artist to master of the Big Con But Van Cise had even darker more malevolent forces on his radar

The Ku Klux Klan had emerged as a shockingly mainstream middleclass movement all while claiming to protect true American values Utilizing his pioneering surveillance techniques Van Cise was determined to expose the Invisible Empire from within

Gripping and exhaustively researched this prescient chronicle of Phillip Van Cises spectacular career as a feared gangbuster taking on organized crime the KKK and corruption at the highest levels of government is a cautionary tale that mirrors our tumultuous times