Eliot Ness
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"Eliot Ness" was an United States/American Bureau of Prohibition/Prohibition agent, famous for his efforts to enforce Prohibition in the United States/Prohibition in Chicago, Illinois, and the leader of a legendary team of law enforcement agents nicknamed Untouchables (law enforcement)/The Untouchables.

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Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority of honest citizens didn't seem to want.

Unquestionably, it was going to be highly dangerous. Yet I felt it was quite natural to jump at the task. After all, if you don't like action and excitement, you don't go into police work. And, what the hell, I figured, nobody lives forever!

You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looking down at that familiar face, I realized that death is something to which we never become calloused.