Gilbert King, Author . Penguin/Chamberlain Bros. $9.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-59609-005-7
Fast on the heels of the State Department's annual report on human trafficking comes this brief but frightening look at a $12-billion-a-year global industry. It's essentially a clip job—King's research into today's slave trade...
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Gilbert King, Author . Basic/Civitas $26 (362p) ISBN 978-0-465-00265-8
I AM N-N-NOT DYING!” screamed Willie Francis, a 17-year-old African-American convicted of murder by an all-white Louisiana jury in 1946, during the failed electrocution that kicks off this tale of justice gone awry in the segregated American...
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Gilbert King. Harper, $26.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-179228-1
In July 1949, four black men in Florida (the “Groveland Four”) were accused of raping a white woman. By the time Marshall joined the case in August, one of the defendants—who had fled into the swamps—had been “lawfully killed.” After a trial of the...
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Gilbert King. Riverhead, $28 (432p) ISBN 978-0-399-18338-6
The perversions of justice under Jim Crow chart a devious path in this labyrinthine true crime saga. Pulitzer-winning historian King (Devil in the Grove) explores the aftermath of the 1957 rape of a white woman named Blanche Knowles, the wife of a...
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Gilbert King, read by Kimberly Farr. Penguin Audio, , unabridged, 12 CDs, 15 hrs., $50 ISBN 978-0-525-52824-1
Voice actor Farr offers a simple reading of King’s true crime saga set in the Jim Crow South. During the winter of 1957, Blanche Knowles, a white woman and the wife of a wealthy citrus baron in Lake County, Fla., is raped. She describes her rapist...
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