A Death in Belmont

A Death in Belmont
Title A Death in Belmont PDF eBook
Author Sebastian Junger
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 278
Release 2006-04-17
Genre True Crime
ISBN 0393077373

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A fatal collision of three lives in the most intriguing and original crime story since In Cold Blood. In the spring of 1963, the quiet suburb of Belmont, Massachusetts, is rocked by a shocking sex murder that exactly fits the pattern of the Boston Strangler. Sensing a break in the case that has paralyzed the city of Boston, the police track down a black man, Roy Smith, who cleaned the victim's house that day and left a receipt with his name on the kitchen counter. Smith is hastily convicted of the Belmont murder, but the terror of the Strangler continues. On the day of the murder, Albert DeSalvo—the man who would eventually confess in lurid detail to the Strangler's crimes—is also in Belmont, working as a carpenter at the Jungers' home. In this spare, powerful narrative, Sebastian Junger chronicles three lives that collide—and ultimately are destroyed—in the vortex of one of the first and most controversial serial murder cases in America.

The Perfect Storm

The Perfect Storm
Title The Perfect Storm PDF eBook
Author Sebastian Junger
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 252
Release 1997
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780393040166

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A true story of men against the sea.

Fire

Fire
Title Fire PDF eBook
Author Sebastian Junger
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 252
Release 2001-10-17
Genre Nature
ISBN 0393077055

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Forest fires, terrorism, war: explorations of danger by the author of The Perfect Storm. In Fire, Sebastian Junger brings to bear the same meticulous prose that made A Perfect Storm a modern classic onto the inner workings of a terrifying elemental force—an out-of-control inferno burning in the steep canyons of Idaho—and the cast of characters risking everything to bring that force under control. Few writers have been to so many desperate corners of the globe as has Sebastian Junger; fewer still have provided such starkly memorable evocations of characters and events. From the murderous mechanics of the diamond trade in Sierra Leone to the logic of guerrilla warfare in Afghanistan and the forensics of genocide in Kosovo, this collection of Junger's nonfiction will take you places you wouldn't dream of going to on your own.

War

War
Title War PDF eBook
Author Sebastian Junger
Publisher HarperCollins UK
Pages 40
Release 2010-05-27
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0007352263

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From the author of The Perfect Storm, a gripping book about Sebastian Junger's almost-fatal year with the 2nd battalion of the American Army.

Tribe

Tribe
Title Tribe PDF eBook
Author Sebastian Junger
Publisher Twelve
Pages 103
Release 2016-05-24
Genre Social Science
ISBN 145556639X

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We have a strong instinct to belong to small groups defined by clear purpose and understanding--"tribes." This tribal connection has been largely lost in modern society, but regaining it may be the key to our psychological survival. Decades before the American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin lamented that English settlers were constantly fleeing over to the Indians-but Indians almost never did the same. Tribal society has been exerting an almost gravitational pull on Westerners for hundreds of years, and the reason lies deep in our evolutionary past as a communal species. The most recent example of that attraction is combat veterans who come home to find themselves missing the incredibly intimate bonds of platoon life. The loss of closeness that comes at the end of deployment may explain the high rates of post-traumatic stress disorder suffered by military veterans today. Combining history, psychology, and anthropology, Tribe explores what we can learn from tribal societies about loyalty, belonging, and the eternal human quest for meaning. It explains the irony that-for many veterans as well as civilians-war feels better than peace, adversity can turn out to be a blessing, and disasters are sometimes remembered more fondly than weddings or tropical vacations. Tribe explains why we are stronger when we come together, and how that can be achieved even in today's divided world.

Freedom

Freedom
Title Freedom PDF eBook
Author Sebastian Junger
Publisher HarperCollins UK
Pages 160
Release 2021-05-18
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0008421838

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A profound rumination on the concept of freedom from the bestselling author of The Perfect Storm

The Zebra Murders

The Zebra Murders
Title The Zebra Murders PDF eBook
Author Prentice Earl Sanders
Publisher Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Pages 370
Release 2011-05
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1611450438

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Offers crucial lessons in how to deal with and not deal with acts of terrorism. San Francisco...