Egan's Rats: A Tunnel Beneath the Law

By Andrew Maue

Beneath the streets of St. Louis, a silent empire rose.

Egan's Rats tells the untold story of the Prohibition-era gang that built an underground kingdom not with noise, but with precision, loyalty, and tunnels carved beneath the city's feet. They ran messages, bootlegged crates, and kept a code tighter than any lawman's badge-until ambition fractured the brotherhood, and silence turned into war.

As the Volstead Act fuels crime across the nation, the Egan gang must navigate shifting allegiances, political betrayal, and violent splinter groups that threaten to undo everything they built. From the smoke-filled vaults of the Jolly Five Club to a final message buried in brick and blood, Egan's Rats is a gripping historical crime saga about the cost of power, the burden of legacy, and the few men who carried the truth when the city chose to forget.

Book Two in The Volstead Vaults series, this standalone entry expands the rich tapestry of American organized crime, offering a visceral, character-driven journey through the dark underbelly of loyalty, loss, and survival.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F38PKSML
• ISBN13: 9798316324903
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"