From the moment they first cut a swathe of crime across 1930s America Clyde Barrow & Bonnie Parker have been glamorised in print on screen & in legend. The reality of their brief & catastrophic lives is very different -- & far more fascinating. Combining exhaustive research with surprising newly discovered material author Jeff Guinn tells the real story of two youngsters from a filthy Dallas slum who fell in love & then willingly traded their lives for a brief interlude of excitement & more important fame. Thanks in great part to surviving relatives of Clyde Barrow & Bonnie Parker who provided Guinn with access to never-before-published family documents & photographs this book reveals the truth behind the myth told with cinematic sweep & unprecedented insight by a master storyteller.