KillersoftheFlowerMoon

From David Grann, a staff writer for The New Yorker and the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Lost City of Z, comes a haunting true-life murder mystery that explores one of the most heinous crimes in American history.

In the 1920s, members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma were the richest people per capita in the world, due to the discovery of oil beneath their land. They lived in opulence, with chauffeured cars, mansions, and education for their children in Europe. However, their wealth proved to be a target on their backs.

As the Osage began to be killed off one by one, the family of Mollie Burkhart became a prime target, with her relatives being shot and poisoned. This was just the beginning, as more and more of the tribe members died under mysterious circumstances.

In the last frontier of the Wild West, where oilmen like J.P. Getty made their fortunes and criminals like the "Phantom Terror" Al Spencer roamed, some investigators who dared to uncover the truth were also murdered. Eventually, the FBI became involved, but the young bureau badly mishandled the case.

To solve the mystery, J. Edgar Hoover, the director of the FBI at the time, turned to former Texas Ranger Tom White to lead an undercover team. This team included one of the only American Indian agents in the bureau, who together with the Osage, began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.

In Killers of the Flower Moon, Grann revisits this shocking series of crimes, presenting years of research and new evidence in a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction. The book reveals sinister secrets and revelations as the investigation progresses, but beyond that, it is a damning indictment of the callousness and prejudice against American Indians, which allowed the murderers to go unpunished for so long.

Overall, Killers of the Flower Moon is an utterly compelling and emotionally devastating story of one of the darkest periods in American history.

作者简介

DavidGrannisastaffwriteratTheNewYorkerandthebest-sellingauthorofTheLostCityofZ,whichwaschosenasoneofthebestbooksoftheyearbyTheNewYorkTimes,TheWashingtonPost,andotherpublications,andhasbeentranslatedintomorethantwenty-fivelanguages.HeisalsotheauthorofTheDevilandSherlockHolmes.Hisworkhasgarneredseveralhonorsfor...