NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST Disturbing and riveting...
It will sear your soul.
Based on years of research and startling new evidence, the book is a masterpiece of narrat.
In Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann revisits a shocking series of crimes in which dozens of people were murdered in cold blood.
Together with the Osage they began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.
The agents infiltrated the region, struggling to adopt the latest techniques of detection.
White put together an undercover team, including one of the only American Indian agents in the bureau.
Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to unravel the mystery.
In desperation, the young director, J.
It was one of the organization\'s first major homicide investigations and the bureau badly bungled the case.
As the death toll climbed to more than twenty-four, the FBI took up the case.
Getty made their fortunes and where desperadoes like Al Spencer, the Phantom Terror, roamed--many of those who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered.
P.
In this last remnant of the Wild West--where oilmen like J.
And it was just the beginning, as more and more members of the tribe began to die under mysterious circumstances.
Her relatives were shot and poisoned.
The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target.
Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off.
After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. --Dave Eggers, New York Times Book Review SHELF AWARENESS\'S BEST BOOK OF 2017 Named a best book of the year by Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, GQ, Time, Newsday, Entertainment Weekly, Time Magazine, NPR\'s Maureen Corrigan, NPR\'s On Point, Vogue, Smithsonian, Cosmopolitan, Seattle Times, Bloomberg, Lit Hub\'s Ultimate Best Books, Library Journal, Paste, Kirkus, Slate.com and Book Browse From New Yorker staff writer David Grann, #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Lost City of Z, a twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST Disturbing and riveting...
It will sear your soul
