Sand, snow and stardust | Kirkus Reviews

Greed, corruption and serial murder in the 20 years of Oklahoma.

During this time, the recorded members of the Indian nation Osage were among the largest people per capita in the world. The rich petroleum deposits under their reservation carry millions of dollars in the tribe a year, distributed to members of the tribes holding “heads” that cannot be purchased or sold, but only inherited. This enormous wealth caught the attention of unscrupulous white ones who have found ways to redirect it by marrying women from Osage or by Osage declared legally incompetent so that the whites can overflow them through the administration of their estates. For some, however, these fraudulent tactics were not sufficient and the plague of violent death – through firing, poison, organized car accident and bombing – Bagan to reduce Osage in what came to call the “reign of the terror.” The corrupt and incompetent law enforcement and court systems ensure that the perpetrators have never been found or punished until young J. Edgar Hoover does not see these cases as a means of burning the reputation of the recently professional FBI. Bestselling New YorkAn employee writer Grand (The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness and Mania2010, etc.) follows the special agent Tom White and his assistants as they trace the killers of an extended Osage family through a closed local culture of greed, fanaticism and lies in the pursuit of the protection of the survivors and justice of the dead. But he does not stop there; Relying almost entirely on primary and unpublished sources, the author continues to expose a network of conspiracy and corruption, which extended far worse than even suspected the FBI. This page turn moves forward with a thriller step for real crime, raised by the crispy and challenging prose of granna and improved by dozens of photographs of the period.

The original research and excellent narrative skills are collected in this fascinating story of Pitiless Evil.