On a dark, rainy night in New Orleans, Mark Lehman, son of US President Harry Lehman, gives his Secret Service agents the slip-and winds up dead. He is not the victim of random violence, however. Across the country, masked men are murdering the children and wives of several other prominent Washington, DC, officials at that exact moment.
Behind this coordinated attack stands business tycoon Wolfgang Aswad Modeus, an evil and power-hungry man determined to force President Lehman out of office. While the President and his wife mourn the death of their son, Modeus and his followers turn up...
On a dark, rainy night in New Orleans, Mark Lehman, son of US President Harry Lehman, gives his Secret Service agents the slip-and winds up dead. H...
A middle-aged carpenter beats his 91-year old mother to death and goes to work the following day, leaving the body for his wife to find. An 82-year old woman is jailed for 10 months for stealing fried chicken. Like nearly all defendants in Japan, they both plead guilty. What happens between plea and sentencing is the subject of True Crime Japan. In this fascinating crime book journalist and longtime Japan resident Paul Murphy provides a glimpse of Japanese society through a year's worth of criminal court cases in Matsumoto, a city 140 miles to the west of Tokyo. The defendants in these...
A middle-aged carpenter beats his 91-year old mother to death and goes to work the following day, leaving the body for his wife to find. An 82-year ol...
