Killers of the Flower Moon

The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

David Grann

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Doubleday
18 April 2017

Biography; True crime; History of the Americas; Social & cultural history; Indigenous peoples; Constitutional & administrative law

In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.

Then, one by one, they began to be killed off. One Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, watched as her family was murdered. Her older sister was shot. Her mother was then slowly poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more Osage began to die under mysterious circumstances.

In this last remnant of the Wild West-where oilmen like J. P. Getty made their fortunes and where desperadoes such as Al Spencer, "the Phantom Terror," roamed - virtually anyone who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered. As the death toll surpassed more than twenty-four Osage, the newly created F.B.I. took up the case, in what became one of the organization's first major homicide investigations. But the bureau was then notoriously corrupt and initially bungled the case.

Eventually the young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to try unravel the mystery. White put together an undercover team, including one of the only Native American agents in the bureau. They infiltrated the region, struggling to adopt the latest modern techniques of detection. Together with the Osage they began to expose one of the most sinister conspiracies in American history.

In Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann revisits a shocking series of crimes in which dozens of people were murdered in cold blood. The book is a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, as each step in the investigation reveals a series of sinister secrets and reversals. But more than that, it is a searing indictment of the callousness and prejudice toward Native Americans that allowed the murderers to operate with impunity for so long. Killers of the Flower Moon is utterly riveting, but also emotionally devastating.

By: David Grann
Imprint: Doubleday
Country of Publication: United States [Currently unable to ship to USA: see Shipping Info]
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 164mm, Spine: 32mm
Weight: 618g
ISBN: 9780385534246
ISBN 10: 0385534248
Publication Date: 18 April 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

David Grann is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the best-selling author of The Lost City of Z, which was chosen as one of the best books of the year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other publications and has been translated into more than twenty-five languages. He is also the author of The Devil and Sherlock Holmes. His work has garnered several honors for outstanding journalism, including a George Polk Award.

Reviews for Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

A New York Times Notable Book * A Best Book of the Year: Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, GQ, Time, Newsday, Entertainment Weekly, Time Magazine, NPR, Vogue, Smithsonian, Cosmopolitan, Seattle Times, Bloomberg, Lit Hub, and Slate The best book of the year so far. -Entertainment Weekly Disturbing and riveting. . . . Grann has proved himself a master of spinning delicious, many-layered mysteries that also happen to be true. . . . It will sear your soul. -Dave Eggers, New York Times Book Review A marvel of detective-like research and narrative verve. -Financial Times A shocking whodunit. . . . What more could fans of true-crime thrillers ask? -USA Today A master of the detective form. . . . Killers is something rather deep and not easily forgotten. -Wall St. Journal David Grann's Killers of the Flower Moon is unsurprisingly extraordinary. -Time A masterful work of literary journalism crafted with the urgency of a mystery. . . . Contained within Grann's mesmerizing storytelling lies something more than a brisk, satisfying read. Killers of the Flower Moon offers up the Osage killings as emblematic of America's relationship with its indigenous peoples and the 'culture of killing' that has forever marred that tie. -The Boston Globe [C]lose to impeccable. It's confident, fluid in its dynamics, light on its feet. . . . The crime story it tells is appalling, and stocked with authentic heroes and villains. It will make you cringe at man's inhumanity to man. -The New York Times