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Informationen zum Autor SEBASTIAN JUNGER is the New York Times bestselling author of Tribe , War , Freedom , A Death in Belmont , Fire , and The Perfect Storm , and codirector of the documentary film Restrepo , which was nominated for an Academy Award. He is also the winner of a Peabody Award and the National Magazine Award for Reporting. Klappentext In 1963, with the city of Boston already terrified by a series of savage crimes known as the Boston Stranglings, a murder occurred in Belmont, just a few blocks from the house of Sebastian Junger's family -- a murder that seemed to fit exactly the pattern of the Strangler. Roy Smith, a black man who had cleaned the victim's house that day, was convicted, but the terror of the Strangler continued. Two years later, Albert DeSalvo, a handyman who had been working at the Jungers' home on the day of the Belmont murder, and had often spent time there alone with Sebastian and his mother, confessed in lurid detail to being the Boston Strangler. By turns exciting and subtle, A Death in Belmont chronicles three lives that collide -- and are ultimately destroyed -- in the vortex of one of the most controversial serial murder cases in America. The power of the story and the brilliance of Junger's reporting place this book on the short shelf of classics beside In Cold Blood and Helter Skelter . Zusammenfassung “Riveting. . . reads like a novel. . . . A worthy sequel to The Perfect Storm .” —New York Times Book Review In the most intriguing and original crime story since In Cold Blood , New York Times bestselling author Sebastian Junger examines the fatal collision of three lives during the infamous Boston Strangler serial murder case In the spring of 1963, the quiet suburb of Belmont, Massachusetts, is rocked by a shocking murder that fits the pattern of the infamous Boston Strangler, still at large. Hoping for a break in the case, the police arrest Roy Smith, a Black ex-con whom the victim hired to clean her house. Smith is hastily convicted of the murder, but the Strangler's terror continues. And through it all, one man escapes the scrutiny of the police: a carpenter working at the time at the Belmont home of young Sebastian Junger and his parents—a man named Albert. A tale of race and justice, murder and memory, this powerful true story is sure to rank besides such classics as Helter Skelter , and The Executioner’s Song . ...
