Dead Like Lazarus

by Tim Mahoney

“Dead Like Lazarus” is a historically-accurate novel based on the June, 1933 kidnapping of wealthy brewer William Hamm. In this story, the third in the series, fictional bootlegger Mick Powers must outwit a mob of ruthless gangsters that includes Fred Barker, Alvin Karpis, and Al Capone’s most dangerous hit man.

302 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 13, 2015

About the author

The Gangster Era pulled me in almost from the moment I began researching it. The first book to come out of that research was "Secret Partners." It's a documented history of the Barker Gang and the police chief who was their protector.
But there were many stories to tell, and not all of them could be throughly documented. So I turned to fiction and am now writing the last in a five-book series that tells the stories of the most infamous public enemies, Alvin Karpis, Fred Barker and John Dillinger. All these stories are based on the true crimes of this fascinating era.

Reviews

[Karl Jorgenson · Rating 5 out of 5]

The gripping third novel in the Mick Powers series. Mick's life has slipped down hill with the end of prohibition. He's moved on the fringes of the big-time bootleggers, doing favors, running errands, but now the landscape is shifting. Liquor and beer may be legal again, but the gangsters who rose to power aren't about to let go. Mick finds himself tangentially involved in the Hamm's kidnapping. (Each Mick Powers story happens during a significant true gangland crime of the era.) He's almost out of cash, out of friends who can protect him, and fleeing from three sets of gangsters who have reason to kill him. A must read, but read 'If the Dead Could Speak' and 'Dead a Long Time' first. The immersion in 1930s Saint Paul is priceless.

[Mark · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really good book and third in the series. The book is historical fiction based in Saint Paul, MN. just after the repeal of prohibition. Fun to read books about the town in which I currently live.