In the 1930s Henry County, Illinois was unlike any other farming county in the it was the nerve center for a gang of locals holed up at the Farm; victims of greedy companies, corrupt bankers, and slick politicians. Their crime spree starts with a break-in burglary at the Davenport Armory to get weapons for robbing a local bank. Before long their mania spreads to include heisting a sporting goods' store and... shootouts with the police, state troopers, and Hoover's Feds. A kidnapping, the killing of a mob extortion-attorney from Chicago, and flight to Venezuela take the reader insider the mind and vehicles of men possessing rampant energy. Follow the gang through a series of plans gone awry and intemperate, joyous times.