A chilling, fascinating, and nearly forgotten historicalfigure is resurrected in a riveting work that links the fascism ofthe last century with the terrorism of our own. Written with verveand extraordinary access to primary sources in several languages,Icon of Evil is the definitive account of the man who during WorldWar II was called “the führer of the Arab world” and whose uglylegacy lives on today. In 1921, the beneficiary of an appointment the British would liveto regret, Haj Amin al-Husseini became the mufti of Jerusalem, themost eminent and influential Islamic leader in the Middle East. Foryears, al-Husseini fomented violence in the region against the Jewshe loathed and wished to destroy. Forced out in 1937, he eventuallyfound his way to the country whose legions he desperately wished tojoin: Nazi Germany. Here, with new and disturbing details, David G. Dalin and John F.Rothmann show how al-Husseini ingratiated himself with his hero,Adolf Hitler, becoming, with his blonde hair and blue eyes, an
A riveting true crime story that vividly recounts the birth ofmodern forensics. At the end of the nineteenth century, serial murderer JosephVacher, known and feared as “The Killer of Little Shepherds,”terrorized the French countryside. He eluded authorities foryears—until he ran up against prosecutor Emile Fourquet and Dr.Alexandre Lacassagne, the era’s most renowned criminologist. Thetwo men—intelligent and bold—typified the Belle ?poque, a period ofimmense scientific achievement and fascination with science’spromise to reveal the secrets of the human condition. With high drama and stunning detail, Douglas Starr revisitsVacher’s infamous crime wave, interweaving the story of howLacassagne and his colleagues were developing forensic science aswe know it. We see one of the earliest uses of criminal profiling,as Fourquet painstakingly collects eyewitness accounts andconstructs a map of Vacher’s crimes. We follow the tense andexciting events leading to the murderer’s arrest
From an award-winning New York Times investigative reportercomes an outrageous story of greed, corruption, andconspiracy—which left the FBI and Justice Department counting onthe cooperation of one man . . . It was one of the FBI's biggest secrets: a senior executive withAmerica's most politically powerful corporation, Archer DanielsMidland, had become a confidential government witness, secretlyrecording a vast criminal conspiracy spanning five continents. MarkWhitacre, the promising golden boy of ADM, had put his career andfamily at risk to wear a wire and deceive his friends andcolleagues. Using Whitacre and a small team of agents to tap intothe secrets at ADM, the FBI discovered the company's scheme tosteal millions of dollars from its own customers. But as the FBI and federal prosecutors closed in on ADM, usingstakeouts, wiretaps, and secret recordings of illegal meetingsaround the world, they suddenly found that everything was not allthat it appeared. At the same time Whitacre was coo
