In the retelling, the cold jargon of police files leaps starkly to life. " pounding narrative meticulously describes the so-called Zebra killings of 1973–74, when 23 white San Franciscans were murdered or maimed by a group of Black Muslim extremists. They were members of a Black Muslim cult aspiring to earn the title "Death Angel" by slaughtering white victims.Ĭombining history and dramatic recreations, this is the "repellent but riveting" in-depth story of a horrifying killing spree and the fanatical hatred that drove it-and the SFPD's desperate quest to take the culprits down ( Kirkus Reviews). It took months before the culprits could be identified, with the help of an informer. The streets became deserted and tourism plunged. Their victims ranged from a teenage Salvation Army cadet to a middle-aged Jordanian grocer to an eighty-one-year-old janitor. In the early 1970s, a small band of well-dressed, clean-cut African American men began terrorizing the residents of San Francisco with guns and machetes. His work has won the prestigious Edgar Award, five Ellery Queen Awards, and the Derringer Aw. Coker RE, Shira A, Clark H, Howard A (1921) Natural history and.
Edgar Award Finalist: The true story of a string of brutal crimes committed in the name of religious fanaticism and racial hatred in 1970s San Francisco. OverDrive: ebooks, audiobooks, and more for libraries and schools Clark Howard is the author of many novels and true crime books, as well as more than two hundred short stories, primarily in the crime and mystery genres. Chaetogaster limnaei (Annelida: Oligochaeta) as a parasite of the zebra mussel Dreissena.
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