FBI special agent Melvin Purvis was just a regular guy, just like anyone else. Sure, the newspapers made him out to be some larger-than-life crime-buster, but he was just a normal blue-collar working man. One time a newspaper reporter had asked Melvin, “What makes you tick?” To this, Melvin had replied, “I love my job.” And he did. Not because it made him feel powerful or because it gave him the sense of control robbing banks gave Emmett Dalton. No, he just loved doing something he was good at.
And he was good.
wasHe was the best when it came to apprehending the nation’s most wanted robbers and killers.
His boss at the Federal Bureau of Investigations, J. Edgar Hoover, wasn’t his biggest fan, and Melvin had no idea as to why. He sensed it was because Hoover wanted all the recognition an
