The Best American Crime Writing 2006
Mark Bowden & John Heilemann & Jimmy Breslin & Mark Jacobson & Skip Hollandsworth & Jeffrey Toobin & Robert Nelson & S. C. Gwynne & Paige Williams & Mary Battiata & Howard Blum & John Connolly & Richard Rubin & Chuck Hustmyre & Devin Friedman & Denise Grollmus & Deanne Stillman
Language: English
Description:
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 row · Skip 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