Gangster in our Midst: Bookkeeper lieutenant and sometimes hitman for Al Capone.

Marshal Sweeney Delaney was just a rookie in his small Iowa town when Congress ratified the 18th Amendment. Prohibition threw the whole nation into a tailspin. Even teetotaling Christians jumped on the bandwagon and began making panther piss in a still behind the barn. Then--a Chicago gangster came to town. His name: Louie La Cava. Sweeney followed the adage: Keep your friends close; your enemies closer. Two old friends are part of his inner circle: Walter Bierkoff a farmer and man of keen curiosity and the perspicacious Father John Halpin priest at the I. C. Catholic Church.