- Taschenbuch: 512 Seiten
- Verlag: Broadway; Auflage: Reprint (24. Oktober 2006)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0767926897
- ISBN-13: 978-0767926898
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 13,2 x 2,8 x 20,3 cm
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Nr. 151.488 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
- Nr. 94 in Englische Bücher > Sachbücher > Wahre Geschichten > Organisierte Kriminalität
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This is a focused glimpse of the criminal justice system, a journalistic study of the disappearance of a young woman in Ada, Oklahoma, and the subsequent arrest and trial of two men suspected of kidnapping, raping, and murdering her. A jury convicted the two men without any eye witnesses, and without a body, a murder weapon, or the implicated vehicle. Mayer looks inside the various elements of the systemlaw enforcement, the work of the district attorneys and defense lawyers, and the responsibilities of the judge and the juryand reveals how this system, and an obsessed and overly zealous public, can lead to injustice. Mayer does an excellent job depicting all sides of the story thoroughly and objectively. The reader is left with an eerie, frightening view of our criminal justice system, which still holds these two men on Death Row.Melinda Stivers Leach, Precision Editorial Svces., Wondervu, Col.
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“A work of quiet brilliance . . . Like Capote and Mailer before him, Mayer compiles his details with a reporter’s skill and arranges them with a novelist’s arrogance.”
—Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“Ranks with the best . . . Clearly, thoroughly, and deftly written.” —Santa Fe Reporter
“A compelling, marvelously detailed picture of justice in a small, scared town.” —Booklist
—Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“Ranks with the best . . . Clearly, thoroughly, and deftly written.” —Santa Fe Reporter
“A compelling, marvelously detailed picture of justice in a small, scared town.” —Booklist
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This is not the place to debate guilt or innocence
19. Februar 2005
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I have read many true crime books in my life.
Out of these books I would estimate 10% qualify as truly excellent or great true crime books.
This is one of those books.
A Book Review should not be debating the guilt or innocence of the suspects mentioned in the book.
What the average reader wants to know is will this book keep me up all night turning the pages?
The best true crime books are better than their fiction counterparts because the things people do to each other are more unbelieveable than anything a fiction writer could invent.
This book qualifies as a book that will keep you up all night and the next day when you try to read it while eating lunch.
My sympathies are certainly with the relatives of the victim but nevertheless this is one of the best True Crime books I've ever read.
By the way, my secret to finding the best true crime books is to look at the bottom of the outside cover of the book. If the book was a Book of the Month Selection or an Edgar Award Winner or Nominee...buy the book. (This book was an Edgar Award Nominee) You won't be sorry.
Here are 5 others that will keep you up all night:
1) Minds of Billy Mulligan
2) Zodiac
3) Unveiling Claudia
4) Zebra
5) Careless Whispers
Out of these books I would estimate 10% qualify as truly excellent or great true crime books.
This is one of those books.
A Book Review should not be debating the guilt or innocence of the suspects mentioned in the book.
What the average reader wants to know is will this book keep me up all night turning the pages?
The best true crime books are better than their fiction counterparts because the things people do to each other are more unbelieveable than anything a fiction writer could invent.
This book qualifies as a book that will keep you up all night and the next day when you try to read it while eating lunch.
My sympathies are certainly with the relatives of the victim but nevertheless this is one of the best True Crime books I've ever read.
By the way, my secret to finding the best true crime books is to look at the bottom of the outside cover of the book. If the book was a Book of the Month Selection or an Edgar Award Winner or Nominee...buy the book. (This book was an Edgar Award Nominee) You won't be sorry.
Here are 5 others that will keep you up all night:
1) Minds of Billy Mulligan
2) Zodiac
3) Unveiling Claudia
4) Zebra
5) Careless Whispers
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Keep the Dream of Freedom Alive
2. November 2006
Format:Taschenbuch|Von Amazon bestätigter Kauf
Mayer's missive about miscarriage of justice in Ada, OKlahoma, has been re-released to coincide with best-selling legal thriller author (and attorney) John Grisham's first foray into non-fiction True Crime, *The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town.* Although chronicling different crimes and different cases, they occur on common ground. Both constitute a grippingly nauseating expose of Ada, America, run totally amuck. (Be afraid. Be very afraid that this can and IS happening right here, in the "Land of the Free") In the Afterward to this update, (no pictures :-( Mayer aptly describes the obscenity of District Attorney Bill Peterson (WHAT?!? He's still there, in his absolute power?!? Proving what they say about absolute power - it corrupts absolutely) and his band of Good Old Boys as "Kafka in Oklahoma."
Coerced, by interrogators who would make the SS & KGB proud, into dreaming up implausibly impossible "dreams" of what could have happened to a missing convenience store clerk, 2 then-young men have been matriculating in the Oklahoma prison system for over 20 years now.
This reviewer, graduate of the University of Oklahoma's College of Law, is simply dumbstruck. I have dreams of Peterson storm-trooping through his Pontotoc County Courthouse to the swirling strains of "Darth Vader's Theme." As another son of the South would ask:
People of Pontotoc County, What Are You Thinking?
And shame on the rest of you all, Oklahoma, for allowing this boil on the buckle of the Bible Belt to not merely fester, but prosper.
Both books should be required reading for those who profess to believe in Liberty and Justice for All.
[and see wardandfontenot.com]
/TundraVision, Amazon Reviewer
Coerced, by interrogators who would make the SS & KGB proud, into dreaming up implausibly impossible "dreams" of what could have happened to a missing convenience store clerk, 2 then-young men have been matriculating in the Oklahoma prison system for over 20 years now.
This reviewer, graduate of the University of Oklahoma's College of Law, is simply dumbstruck. I have dreams of Peterson storm-trooping through his Pontotoc County Courthouse to the swirling strains of "Darth Vader's Theme." As another son of the South would ask:
People of Pontotoc County, What Are You Thinking?
And shame on the rest of you all, Oklahoma, for allowing this boil on the buckle of the Bible Belt to not merely fester, but prosper.
Both books should be required reading for those who profess to believe in Liberty and Justice for All.
[and see wardandfontenot.com]
/TundraVision, Amazon Reviewer
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proverbial fly on the wall
1. Januar 2007
Format:Taschenbuch
true, this whole story reeks of miscarriage of justice, but my review is more focused on the writing style of the author, robert mayer. he is good. really good. he obviously must have had access to most of the participants and just seems to be like a fly on the wall; observing, watching, listening and just taking us through the twists and turns. it is obvious even he does not know where the story is going; what is going to happen next. we experience it as he does. it is almost like a work of fiction. i wish mayer would write more true crime. this is what i look for when i scour the book stores for true crime books.
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