Inspector Green is coping with an office job, still eager to get back into the day-to-day fray of policing. His chance comes when an unidentified woman is drowned in the Ottawa River. In her possession is a Medal for Bravery from a peacekeeping mission. As Green and his team dig deeper into the mili
American honor killings: desire and rage among men
β Scribed by McConnell, David
- Publisher
- akashic books
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 180 KB
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1617751537
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
IN AMERICAN HONOR KILLINGS, straight and gay guys cross paths, and the result is murder. But what really happened? What role did hatred play? What about bullying and abuse? What were the men involved really like, and what was going on between them when the murder occurred? explores the truth behind squeamish reporting and uninformed political rants of the far right or fringe left. David McConnell, a New York-based novelist, researched cases from small-town Alabama to San Quentin's death row. The book recounts some of the most notorious crimes of our era.
BEGINNING IN 1999 and lasting until last year's conviction of a youth in Queens, New York, the book shows how some murderers think they're cleaning up society. Surprisingly, other killings feel almost preordained, not a matter of the victim's personality or actions so much as a twisted display of a young man's will to compete or dominate. We want to think these stories involve simple sexual conflict, either the...
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