THE VAPORS
A southern family, the new york mob, and the rise and fall of hot springs, America’s forgotten capital of vice
"Mobsters and molls, con artists and comedians, healing waters and wily hustlers converge in a vice-happy town in the middle of nowhere—nope, not Las Vegas. This is Hot Springs in the middle of the twentieth century, come alive in a deeply reported, dark but unstoppably fascinating history of David Hill's rowdy clan's heyday. It might be a sin, but just read it." — James McManus, author of Positively Fifth Street