Left for Alive - Hogan, Tom

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Résumé :
Northern California in the early 70's. An investigative reporter is on the trail of radical attorney Donna Fairchild, who hasn't been seen for three years. In the course of her investigation, she discovers a group of ex-cons and political refugees (including Fairchild) living in an abandoned lumber camp. As the investigation broadens, a number of questions emerge about the ex-cons and their mysterious leader. Why do the police interview him after every local rape? What is his relationship to Fairchild--and to the Vasquez murder? Where did he get the money to buy the camp and much of the mountain? And where does he disappear to every six months, returning battered and bloodied? The group includes The Gimp, the wheelchair-bound owner of the local bar and unofficial mayor of the mountain; Lucky, who doesn't have an honest bone in his body; William, a blackballed professor; Clark, who no one has ever heard speak; Alexis, the stockbroker turned cabbie; and Josh, the mysterious figure at the center of it all. A series of rapes and murders--past and present--bind this group together. As these assaults increase in severity and number, the mysteries surrounding Josh and the group are resolved in a shocking, violent finale.

Biographie:
Tom Hogan is the author of three novels: The Empty Confessional, a crime novel about pedophilia and the Catholic Church; The Devil's Breath, a thriller based in Auschwitz (Amazon Best-Seller 2021), and Left for Alive, a crime novel (2019). He is also the coauthor of The Ultimate Startup Guide (2017). His screenplays have won awards (the PAGE competition, and the Austin and Napa Valley Film Festivals). He has also written on politics and history for Newsweek, The Jerusalem Post, and The Bulwark. Prior to joining Silicon Valley, where his agency, Crowded Ocean, launched over fifty startups, he was a Lecturer of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Santa Clara University and UC Santa Cruz. He now lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife, the lovely Pamela Pearson, three dogs, and three cats.