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Shocking, grim, frightening, Curt Gentry's masterful portrait of America's top policeman is a unique political biography. From more than 300 interviews and over 100,000 pages of previously classified documents, Gentry reveals exactly how a paranoid director created the fraudulent myth of an invincible, incorruptible FBI. For almost fifty years, Hoover held virtually unchecked public power, manipulating every president from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Richard Nixon. He kept extensive blackmail files and used illegal wiretaps and hidden microphones to destroy anyone who opposed him. The book...

V létě 1969 vyděsila celou Ameriku série brutálních, zdánlivě náhodných vražd spáchaných během dvou nocí v Los Angeles. Mezi oběťmi byla mimo jiné slavná herečka (a její nenarozené dítě), módní kadeřník a stylista, dědička kávového impéria či spořádaní středostavovští manželé. Zpočátku neplodné pátrání nakonec policii a úřad státního zástupce zavedlo k Charlesi Mansonovi. Tento neúspěšný hudebník, chronický delikvent a samozvaný guru žil v poušti se skupinou oddaných příznivců, především mladých žen. Jaký byl motiv za...

The shocking true story of the Manson murders, revealed in this harrowing, often terrifying book. Helter Skelter won a Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award in 1975 for Best Fact Crime Book. America watched in fascinated horror as the killers were tried and convicted. How did Manson make his 'family' kill for him?

In the summer of 1969, in Los Angeles, a series of brutal, seemingly random murders captured headlines across America. A famous actress (and her unborn child), an heiress to a coffee fortune, a supermarket owner and his wife were among the seven victims. A thin trail of circumstances eventually tied the Tate-LeBianca murders to Charles Manson, a would-be pop singer of small talent living in the desert with his "family" of devoted young women and men. What was his hold over them? And what was the motivation behind such savagery? In the public imagination, over time, the case assumed the...