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Soon to be a major motion picture starring Emilia Clarke and Jack Huston: The uncommonly trenchant account of the only known FBI agent to confess to murder (Kirkus Reviews) . When rookie FBI agent Mark Putnam received his first assignment in 1987, it was the culmination of a lifelong dream, if not the most desirable location. Pikeville, Kentucky, is high in Appalachian coal country, an outpost rife with lawlessness dating back to the Hatfields and McCoys. Asa rising star in the bureau, however, Putnam soonwas cultivating paid informants and busting drug rings and bank robbers. But when one informant fell in love with him, passion and duty would collide with tragic results. A coal miner s daughter, Susan Smith was a young, attractive, struggling single mother.
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Joe Sharkey's narrative true crime book "Above Suspicion" has been adapted as a major motion picture starring Emilia Clarke, Jack Huston and Johnny Knoxville. He is also the author of the true crime books "Death Sentence" and "Deadly Greed," the investigative nonfiction book "Bedlam," and (with Angela Amato) the novel "Lady Gold," about a New York Police Department detective who goes undercover for a year posing as a mafia guy's girlfriend. He was a New York Times columnist for 19 years and before that an editor at the Wall Street Journal and a reporter and columnist at the Philadelphia Inquirer.He is at work on "Wreckage," a deep dive into the devastating historical effects of the priest sexual abuse scandal on the Catholic Church, as well as the novel "Action News," a murder mystery and dark comedy set in the tumultuous world of local TV news in Philadelphia in the 1970s.He and his wife Nancy live in Tucson.
