The time is 1925. The place, St. Louis, Missouri. Charley Floyd, a good-looking, sweet-smiling, country boy from Oklahoma is about to rob his first armored car. This intriguing novel traces the wild career of a legendary American folk hero, a young man so charming that its hard not to like him even as hes robbing you at gunpoint. Pretty Boy Floyd is a richly comic masterpiece and an American tragedy about the price of fame and the corruption of innocence.