Mike Flynn and John Auble

Two authors join us to discuss the gangster history of St. Louis.

Voted "Best Book by a Local Author" in the 2008 Riverfront Times "Best of St. Louis" edition, Ray Flynn's narrative reveals his experience with mob warfare in North St. Louis during the depression and prohibition and eventually into St. Louis's bloodiest underground crime war. His son, Mike Flynn, published his father's memoir, Confessions of a Mob Hitman, fulfilling one of his last requests. Mike writes, "This is the true story of St. Louis and Southern Illinois in the old days that no one else knew like my father." 

John Auble has been covering news and feature stories in St. Louis since 1967 when he came to work for the old St. Louis Globe. After a number of other media jobs in St. Louis, he joined the staff of FOX  2 in 1988. His book A History of St. Louis Gangsters is a chronology of mob activity in St. Louis, on both sides of the river, ranging from the Egan Rats to the last mob leader on record.