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The world’s most popular thriller writer presents the definitive, never before told account of the Aaron Hernandez case.
Everyone thought they knew Aaron Hernandez. He was an NFL star who made
the game of football look easy. Until he became the prime suspect in a
gruesome murder. But who was Aaron Hernandez, really?
Rich with in-depth, on-the-ground investigative reporting that gives
readers a front row seat to Hernandez’s tumultuous downward spiral, THE
PATRIOT will reveal the unvarnished truth behind the troubled star, with
first-person accounts and untold stories–from his hometown of Bristol,
CT to his college days in Gainesville, FL to the Patriots’ NFL locker
room where he ascended to stardom, to the prison where Hernandez spent
his final days. Packed with the shocking details of a true crime
masterpiece and the pacing of a suspenseful thriller, THE PATRIOT
answers the questions that everyone is asking about Aaron Hernandez.
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In the 1920s, the richest
people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian Nation
in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode
in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to
study in Europe.
Then, one by one, they began to be killed off. One Osage woman,
Mollie Burkhart, watched as her family was murdered. Her older sister
was shot. Her mother was then slowly poisoned. And it was just the
beginning, as more Osage began to die under mysterious circumstances.
In this last remnant of the Wild West—where oilmen like J. P. Getty
made their fortunes and where desperadoes such as Al Spencer, “the
Phantom Terror,” roamed – virtually anyone who dared to investigate the
killings were themselves murdered. As the death toll surpassed more than
twenty-four Osage, the newly created F.B.I. took up the case, in what
became one of the organization’s first major homicide investigations.
But the bureau was then notoriously corrupt and initially bungled the
case. Eventually the young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former
Texas Ranger named Tom White to try to unravel the mystery. White put
together an undercover team, including one of the only Native American
agents in the bureau. They infiltrated the region, struggling to adopt
the latest modern techniques of detection. Together with the Osage they
began to expose one of the most sinister conspiracies in American
history.
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