Book Titles by Adrian Havill
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Born Evil:
Homeless and living in his truck, forty-year-old Hadden Clark often drew stares in Bethesda, Maryland. He also slept with a teddy bear, strolled through town dressed as a woman, and carried 28 carving knives, a straight razor, and a gun in his truck. When the reclusive loner was arrested in 1992 for the stabbing murders of two local girls, no one was surprised. It was after his incarceration that the surprises came, popping up like half-buried corpses.
While serving a seventy-year sentence, Hadden confessed to
having a split personality, dominated by a psychotic mother
and daughter who were vying for attention. He also admitted
to murdering at least a dozen more women -the ones he could
remember-cannibalizing them, using their leftover body parts
as fishing bait, and burying their remains everywhere from
a local cemetery to a sand dune on Cape Cod. Authorities didn't
believe him-until Hadden took them on a personal four-state
tour.
Separated by a thick glass wall, and under the most stringent
security precautions, reporter Adrian Havill sat face to face
with a murderer as he participated in several in-person interviews
with Hadden Clark, and learned what made this monster kill
again and again and again...
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The Mother, the Son and the Socialite:
THE CRIME SPREE OF THE CENTURY - Linked to an unbelievable
cross-country crime spree that may have included as many as
four brutal murders, police finally caught the Kimeses, who
are the leading suspects in the disappearance of Irene Silverman.
Did this macabre team carve a bloody trail of bodies that
finally ended at a posh New York townhouse? Is this the case
of an Oedipus complex gone horribly out of control? And will
their sensational trial pit mother against son for the ultimate
family feud between two warped criminal minds?
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While Innocents Slept:
Did a talented pianist kill two of his infant children who
were diagnosed as having died from SIDS, or was he instead
the victim of a vengeful former wife?
Death seemed to be part of Garrett Wilson's life. Both of
his parents had died by the time he was in his early 20s.
So friends shrugged when sadly, an infant daughter, and then
a son, died from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. But after he
divorced his wife and married another, his spurned spouse
became convinced that their children's passing was anything
but natural.
Her four-year investigation, his arrest and trial, and the
stunning verdict in this medical murder mystery will keep
readers guessing until the final pages. The author conducted
sixteen in-person interviews with the accused and had total
access to both the defense and the prosecution. The result
is an unprecedented look at a murder investigation and a real-life
medical thriller that stretched from Maryland to Texas and
Florida.
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The Spy Who Stayed Out In the Cold:
Have you ever wondered what the true lives of spies are like?
For 15 years FBI agent Robert Philip Hanssen pulled off a
fantastic charade while receiving hundreds of thousands of
dollars from the Soviet government, until an FBI sting operation
brought him to justice in February 2001. Adrian Havill, author
of While
Innocents Slept, takes readers on a harrowing trip
through the life and actions of the accused spy.
The Spy Who Stayed Out in the Cold peers into the
psyche of Hanssen and aptly reveals how an FBI agent, supporting
a family of eight on less than $40,000 a year, made the decision
to turn against all that the FBI stands for and sell government
secrets, first to the Soviet Union and, subsequently, to Russia.
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Man of Steel:
Havill, author of Deep Truth: The Lives of Bob Woodward
and Carl Bernstein offers readers the inside story of
Christopher Reeve's heroic struggle with paralysis. Reeve
has been in the public spotlight since his equestrian accident,
giving encouragement to his millions of fans and peers in
the entertainment industry. This is the first book available
on this tragic, yet uplifting story.
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Deep Truth:
Arguably America's best-known journalists, Woodward and Bernstein
won a Pulitzer Prize for The Washington Post and wrote six
#1 bestsellers between them. In this revelatory biography,
Havill delves into the facts and myths of their lives and
works.
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Last Mogul - The Unauthorized Biography of Jack Kent
Cooke:
Few moguls in sports are more interesting than Cooke, a self-made
billionaire and owner of the Washington Redskins football
team. Havill's book does indeed provide a fascinating, tabloid-like
look at Cooke's rise to wealth and fame. Although unauthorized,
Havill manages to dig up a lot of dirt, especially from Cooke's
first wife, who repeatedly tried to commit suicide, and his
third wife, who refused to go through with a third abortion.
The book is written like a novel--perhaps too much like one
(the author admits to reconstructing interviews). Certainly
readers of sports biographies will enjoy this titillating
read.
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