Bringing Adam Home - The Abduction That Changed America

"Les Standiford''s account of the decades-long attempt to solve the murder of Adam Walsh is chilling, heartbreaking, hopeful, and as relentlessly suspenseful as anything I''ve ever read. A triumph in every way." --Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River "The most significant missing child case since the Lindbergh''s....A taut, compelling and often touching book about a long march to justice." --Scott Turow, author of Presumed Innocent The abduction that changed America forever, the 1981 kidnapping and murder of six-year-old Adam Walsh--son of John Walsh, host of the Fox TV series America''s Most Wanted--in Hollywood, Florida, was a crime that went unsolved for a quarter of a century. Bringing Adam Home by author Les Standiford is a harrowing account of the terrible crime and its dramatic consequences, the emotional story of a father and mother''s efforts to seek justice and resolve the loss of their child, and a compelling portrait of Miami Beach Homicide Detective Joe Matthews, whose unwavering dedication brought the Adam Walsh case to its resolution.

Product details

• Authors: Joe Matthews, Les Standiford, Les/ Matthews Standiford
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2011
• EAN: 9780061983900
• ISBN: 978-0-06-198390-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: True Crime, Memoirs, Forensic Science, True crime: serial killers and murderers, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS: Nonfiction / Biography & Memoir *, TRUE CRIME: Murder / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Criminals & Outlaws, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS: Crime & Mystery, TRUE CRIME: Historical, TRUE CRIME: Murder / Serial Killers, LAW: Criminal Law / General, TRUE CRIME: Abductions, Kidnappings & Missing Persons, TRUE CRIME: Forensics