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We Die in the Dark

Autor Johann Hari
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 apr 2027
In this riveting true crime thriller, New York Times bestselling author Johann Hari shines a light on a community living beneath the Las Vegas strip--a subterranean world where a serial killer preyed on the most vulnerable. Hari thought he was going to Las Vegas to report a single story, but a series of introductions led him to Tommy and Shay, a couple from Hawaii living in the tunnels of Vegas beneath Caesar's Palace. They ushered him into a secret world below the city, a world in which community and survival were interlinked, and where the shadow of the Vegas strip's immense wealth provided cover for random and unspeakable acts of violence. That world grew more terrifying when people started getting murdered, bludgeoned as they slept on the streets and in the tunnels. Hari began returning to Vegas again and again, and soon began to suspect that a serial killer might be operating in Las Vegas praying on the unhoused. The mystery of the culprit's identity and motives would take Hari deep into the city's history, and into a chain of tragic events that involved a horrific border crossing and a cult like Korean church whose theology cast out the homeless as non-human. Faced with a potential killer whose depravity could not be reduced to pure evil and haunted by the disappearance of Tommy and Shay during the chaos of the pandemic, Hari's quest for the truth took him to the heart of a city and a country where the ever-widening cracks are easier to fall into, and where the broken find increasingly easy targets for rage and retribution. Johann Hari's riveting true crime thriller We Die in the Dark is at once a disturbing journey into the mystery of a serial killer stalking the homeless of Las Vegas, and a powerful examination of the social forces rolling America that make such killings inevitable. Blending brilliant narrative storytelling, deep research, and gripping firsthand accounts, Hari immerses readers in a subterranean world beneath some of the richest locales in America, where danger lurks for society's most vulnerable.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780593138540
ISBN-10: 0593138546
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.55 kg
Editura: Crown Publishing Group (NY)

Notă biografică

Johann Hari is the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream, Lost Connections, Stolen Focus, and Magic Pill. He has written for The New York Times, Le Monde, The Guardian, and other newspapers. His TED Talks have been viewed over 70 million times, and his work has been praised by a broad range of people, from Oprah Winfrey to Noam Chomsky to Joe Rogan. He is a writer and journalist.

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'An utterly unique masterwork' NAOMI KLEIN
'Brilliantly researched... Impossible to forget' JEFF GUINN

In this riveting true crime thriller, bestselling author and journalist Johann Hari hunts the serial killers stalking the sinister underworld of Las Vegas.

Hidden in the tunnels beneath the Las Vegas Strip is a secret city - one that the homeless have built, and the police are afraid to enter. When Johann Hari first ventured underground in 2011, he discovered something strange: people kept disappearing, or turning up dead.

Suspicions arose that a serial killer was preying on the homeless population living in the tunnels. But when a suspect was jailed and the murders continued, a darker truth started to emerge. Las Vegas appeared to have become a breeding ground for serial killers targeting some of the city's most vulnerable people, and nobody knew why.

That mystery would become a fifteen-year obsession for Hari. Gaining unprecedented access to police files, prosecution and defence lawyers, and the families of the missing, his search for answers draws him into a chain of bizarre and tragic events. The kidnapping of a thirteen-year-old girl. The election of a mayor who befriended one of the worst murderers in American history. The rise of a cult-like Korean church predicting the end of the world in a nuclear holocaust. And, in a chilling final confrontation, he comes face to face with the killers themselves.

An astonishing page-turner, We Die in the Dark reveals a hidden side of America where the vulnerable can disappear without trace and killers can move unseen - and drags it blinking into the light.

Recenzii

The best books in the true crime genre go far beyond descriptions of horrific crimes to probe the cultural inequities which too often doom the most helpless among us. We Die in the Dark, Johann Hari's brilliantly researched and written account of a killing spree targeting the homeless in Las Vegas, is, quite simply, the best of the best. It is stunning to read, and, afterward, impossible to forget
A staggering work of non fiction - a suspenseful thriller, a heartbreaking novel, a scathing expose on the cruel underworld of America. One of the most powerful books I have ever read
Hari dives deep into one of the most troubling environments imaginable. Las Vegas emerges as the birthplace of all that is darkest in human experience - almost as a serial killer in its own right. He reminds as - as ever - that only love counts. It's a harrowing read, unforgettably haunting and yet precise. An extraordinary feat of journalism and connection
We Die in the Dark is many stories in one: tragedy, history, dystopia, crime, mystery, love. Curious, kind, and compassionate to all he encounters, Hari is a superb guide through this complicated terrain. We Die in the Dark might just be his best work
A gripping and harrowing story that is at once about an unforgettable cast of characters and about a culture unraveling at warp speed. Hari is dogged detective, digging for years to crack the case, and a deep empath, bringing victim and perpetrator alive on the page. This is an utterly unique masterwork -- I disappeared into it completely, unable to put it down.