Charles Einstein (1926-2007) was a sportswriter (Willie’s Time: Baseball’s Golden Age, The Fireside Book of Baseball, etc), columnist, screenwriter & the author of several novels, including Broken Spur, which became Fritz Lang’s film While The City Sleep. He was the half-brother of actor/director Albert Brooks and comic Bob Einstein (aka Super Dave Osborne).
Fifteen years before the 1970 movie classic "The Conversation," there was "Wiretap!", Charles Einstein's stunning and authentic crime novel about a massive, illegal telephone eavesdropping operation within a major American city. Back-in-print for the first time in over 65 years.
"Part pulp fiction, part true-crime narrative, Charles Einstein’s lurid potboiler 'Wiretap!' [is] perhaps the most famous novel about telephone tapping. Part of the appeal lies in its true-to-life details. A standout." Brian Hochman, author of "The Listerners: A History of Wiretapping in the United States"