Casey Sherman ist ein gefeierter Autor, dessen Werke sich oft packenden Erzählungen widmen, die von realen Ereignissen inspiriert sind. Sein Schreiben zeichnet sich durch die Fähigkeit aus, den Leser ins Zentrum dramatischer Geschehnisse zu ziehen und gleichzeitig die menschliche Widerstandsfähigkeit angesichts von Widrigkeiten zu erforschen. Sherman verbindet gekonnt akribische Recherche mit fesselndem Storytelling und schafft so Erzählungen, die sowohl im Film als auch in der Literatur Anklang finden. Seine Gabe, die Essenz des menschlichen Geistes unter extremem Druck aufzudecken, macht ihn zu einem einzigartigen Chronisten der heutigen Zeit.
Presents a portrait of the Irish-American gangster who worked as an informant on both sides of the law and describes the sixteen-year hunt for him and his final capture, arrest, and murder in prison.
John Lennon was one of the world's most influential people. Mark David Chapman was one of the most invisible. By the end of 1980, the Beatles had been broken up for a decade - a decade John Lennon had spent in search of his true identity: singer, songwriter, activist, burn out. But now, he declared, "it's the perfect time to be coming back". Except that Lennon was a marked man. As early as the Beatles' controversial 1966 American tour, during which the band had feared for their safety, Lennon had complained, "You might as well put a target on me". The Nixon administration did just that, putting Lennon under FBI surveillance. If only the agents hadn't been so intently focussed on the star himself, they might have detected Mark David Chapman's powerful, ever-growing obsession with the man he'd grown up idolising. Chapman, himself a tragic nowhere man, ultimately achieved the notoriety he craved by making the target on Lennon very real - and single-handedly wounding the spirit of a generation.
"In the winter of 1969, the bodies of four young women were discovered in a cemetery near the tip of Cape Cod. In a place once known as Helltown, the victims had been shot, stabbed, dismembered, and mutilated. As investigators would soon learn, the perpetrator was a young, handsome, serial killer named Tony Costa. A bizarre former taxidermist with a split personality and penchant for violence, Costa ultimately mobilized friends in the hippie community for support and retribution and captivated literary icons and rivals Kurt Vonnegut and Norman Mailer. Costa embarked on a daring cat-and-mouse game with investigators, who-as the body count kept growing-were desperate to put an end to the killing season on Cape Cod"--
Brian Beneduce had just married the most beautiful woman on earth, yet he wanted to die. Although his bride, Robbie, knew he had a fear of flying, she had no idea what was going through his mind as they boarded the plane. As the plane rumbled down the runway and lifted into the sky, The Thing-the three-headed beast inside of Brian-began to take over, leading him to pray the plane carrying him and his wife to their honeymoon would fall out of the sky and crash so he could finally relieve himself of his fear. In a candid retelling, Beneduce shares details from his roller coaster journey as he bravely battled the debilitating effects of a years-long life-and-death struggle with anxiety and panic disorder related to his agoraphobia. While revealing the depths of his despair as he fought his invisible enemy and valiantly searched for help and relief, Beneduce also offers proven coping methods that eventually allowed him to keep his severe anxiety at bay and transform into a successful businessman. Anxiety Warrior chronicles an agoraphobic's gripping story as he battled an internal monster and learned coping mechanisms that helped him better deal with severe anxiety and panic disorder.