Interesting but morally reprehensible. Ness's actions could easily be anticipated to directly instigate bloodshed. I don't know if Ness ever did this in real life but if he did it casts a shadow, in my opinion, over his name and his legacy. (Although the well-intentioned but misguided, wrong-headed and self-destructive experiment known as "Prohibition" has long been discredited, anyway.)
Review of The Torpedo
