BLOOMINGTON NATIVE AND best-selling author Michael Koryta’s latest crime novel, Die Famous, riffs on one of the most notorious Indiana gangsters Hoosiers have never heard of—Al Brady of Indianapolis.
Brady and his fellow desperadoes—James Dalhover and Clarence Lee Shaffer—embarked on a Depression-era spree of robberies and murders that started in Indy in 1935 and ended two years later in an FBI shootout at a Bangor, Maine, sporting goods store. Brady dreamt of emulating Indiana’s dark legend John Dillinger.
Stephen King has called Die Famous “the best gangster novel [he’s] ever read.”…