Title | : | The Best American Crime Writing 2006 |
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Author | : | Mark Bowden, Otto Penzler & Thomas H. Cook |
Release | : | 2009-03-17 |
Kind | : | ebook |
Genre | : | True Crime, Books, Nonfiction, Social Science, Fiction & Literature, Biographies & Memoirs |
Size | : | 1865969 |
Fifteen riveting true crime stories from some of the best crime writers around. A sterling collection of the year’s most shocking, compelling, and gripping writing about real-life crime, the 2006 edition of The Best American Crime Writing offers fascinating vicarious journeys into a world of felons and their felonious acts. This thrilling compendium includes:Jeffrey Toobin’s eye-opening exposé in The New Yorker about a famous prosecutor who may have put the wrong man on death rowSkip Hollandsworth's amazing but true tale of an old cowboy bank robber who turned out to be a “classic good-hearted Texas woman”Jimmy Breslin’s stellar piece about the end of the Mob as we know it |