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A fatal collision of three lives in the most intriguing and original crime story since In Cold Blood In the spring of the quiet suburb of Belmont Massachusetts is rocked by a shocking sex murder that exactly fits the pattern of the Boston Strangler Sensing a break in the case that has paralyzed the city of Boston the police track down a black man Roy Smith who cleaned the victims house that day and left a receipt with his name on the kitchen counter Smith is hastily convicted of the Belmont murder but the terror of the Strangler continues On the day of the murder Albert DeSalvoxthe man who would eventually confess in lurid detail to the Stranglers crimesxis also in Belmont working as a carpenter at the Jungers home In this spare powerful narrative Sebastian Junger chronicles three lives that collidexand ultimately are destroyedxin the vortex of one of the first and most controversial serial murder cases in America.
About the Author
Sebastian Junger is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of War, The Perfect Storm, Fire, and A Death in Belmont. Together with Tim Hetherington, he directed the Academy Award-nominated film Restrepo, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. He is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and has been awarded a National Magazine Award and an SAIS Novartis Prize for journalism. He lives in New York City.
