there's jim spawn who's done wonderful things studying the platt city shootout. it's the barden spot -- garden spot outside kansas city where your airport is now located, and it's also where bonnie and clyde and their criminal career began to be extinguished. that was the beginning of the end. the thing that i thought needed to be done in this book -- there have been do my knowledge 27 previous books written about bonnie and clyde coming from rep -- reputable authors. there's few that have context. by that i mean this. the great historian steven ambrose said he wrote books to answer one question, and question was how did they do that? whether steve ambrose wrote about the transcontinental railroad or organizing d-day, the purpose of his books and what he wanted to find out was how was it done? go down together is my 14th book, and in my books i try to answer a question too, but it's a different one. what i always want to understand is why did they do that? that's where context comes in, and in the case of bonnie and clyde and the legend that's grown and been refu