The Tangled Web tells the dramatic story of detective Richard Cain s criminal career as revealed by his half-brother Michael. Cain led a double-life--one as a well-known cop who led raids that landed on the front pages and the other as a made man in one of Chicago s most notorious mob families. Eventually executed by shotgun Dick Cain lived and died in a world of bloodshed and violence leaving behind a story so outlandish that he has even been suspected of being involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.