Egan's Rats: The Untold Story of the Prohibition-Era Gang That Ruled St. Louis"We never shoot unless we know who is present," gang boss Tom Egan declared in a candid interview with a. leading St. Louis newspaper. Just who was this man who could boast in public about ordering murder? After nearly a century, the story of the Egan's Rats can finally be told: how a group of Victorian era street punks mushroomed into a powerful force that controlled Missouri's largest city for nearly thirty years. Led by two childhood pals, Thomas