Whispering Wires
Metcalfe, Philip![Whispering Wires](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/375/37577334/CHSBZCOP0337577334.jpg)
Philip Metcalfe has described his role as an author as that of a "painter who endows a lost world with the personality and the dailiness it once possessed." In Whispering Wires, Metcalfe tells the story of Roy Olmstead, one of the principal bootleggers in Prohibition-era Seattle, and the first major federal court case concerning the use of wiretaps. He writes, "Set into motion then was a constellation of conditions that no one could have foret...