David Grann

In 1925, the legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett ventured into the Amazon jungle, in search of a fabled civilization. He never returned. Over the years countless perished trying to find evidence of his party and the place he called “The Lost City of Z.” In this masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, journalist David Grann interweaves the spellbinding stories of Fawcett’s quest for “Z” and his own journey into the deadly jungle, as he unravels the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century.

In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage 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, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. One of her relatives was shot. Another was poisoned. And this was just the beginning, as more and more Osage were dying under mysterious circumstances, and many of those who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered.As the death toll rose, the newly created FBI took up the case, and the young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to try to unravel the mystery. White put together an undercover team, including a Native American agent who infiltrated the region, and together with the Osage began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on the Wager, showing that it was not only the captain and crew who ended up on trial, but the very idea of empire.On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as "the prize of all the oceans," it had wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The men, after being marooned for months and facing starvation, built the flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days, traversing nearly 3,000 miles of storm-wracked seas. They were greeted as heroes.But then . . . six months later, another, even more decrepit craft landed on the coast of Chile. This boat contained just three castaways, and they told a very different story. The thirty sailors who landed in Brazil were not heroes - they were mutineers. The first group responded with countercharges of their own, of a tyrannical and murderous senior officer and his henchmen. It became clear that while stranded on the island the crew had fallen into anarchy, with warring factions fighting for dominion over the barren wilderness. As accusations of treachery and murder flew, the Admiralty convened a court martial to determine who was telling the truth. The stakes were life-and-death--for whomever the court found guilty could hang.The Wager is a grand tale of human behavior at the extremes told by one of our greatest nonfiction writers. Grann's recreation of the hidden world on a British warship rivals the work of Patrick O'Brian, his portrayal of the castaways' desperate straits stands up to the classics of survival writing such as The Endurance, and his account of the court martial has the savvy of a Scott Turow thriller. As always with Grann's work, the incredible twists of the narrative hold the reader spellbound.

Acclaimed New Yorker writer and author of the breakout debut bestseller The Lost City of Z, David Grann offers a collection of spellbinding narrative journalism.Whether he's reporting on the infiltration of the murderous Aryan Brotherhood into the U.S. prison system, tracking down a chameleon con artist in Europe, or riding in a cyclone-tossed skiff with a scientist hunting the elusive giant squid, David Grann revels in telling stories that explore the nature of obsession and that piece together true and unforgettable mysteries.Each of the dozen stories in this collection reveals a hidden and often dangerous world and, like Into Thin Air and The Orchid Thief, pivots around the gravitational pull of obsession and the captivating personalities of those caught in its grip. There is the world's foremost expert on Sherlock Holmes who is found dead in mysterious circumstances; an arson sleuth trying to prove that a man about to be executed is innocent, and sandhogs racing to complete the brutally dangerous job of building New York City's water tunnels before the old system collapses. Throughout, Grann's hypnotic accounts display the power-and often the willful perversity-of the human spirit.Compulsively readable, The Devil and Sherlock Holmes is a brilliant mosaic of ambition, madness, passion, and folly.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Wager, a thrilling and powerful true story of adventure and obsession in the Antarctic, lavishly illustrated with color photographs."[Grann is] one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today."—New York MagazineHenry Worsley was a devoted husband and father and a decorated British special forces officer who believed in honor and sacrifice. He was also a man obsessed. He spent his life idolizing Ernest Shackleton, the nineteenth-century polar explorer, who tried to become the first person to reach the South Pole, and later sought to cross Antarctica on foot. Shackleton never completed his journeys, but he repeatedly rescued his men from certain death, and emerged as one of the greatest leaders in history.Worsley felt an overpowering connection to those expeditions. He was related to one of Shackleton's men, Frank Worsley, and spent a fortune collecting artifacts from their epic treks across the continent. He modeled his military command on Shackleton's legendary skills and was determined to measure his own powers of endurance against them. He would succeed where Shackleton had failed, in the most brutal landscape in the world.In 2008, Worsley set out across Antarctica with two other descendants of Shackleton's crew, battling the freezing, desolate landscape, life-threatening physical exhaustion, and hidden crevasses. Yet when he returned home he felt compelled to go back. On November 13, 2015, at age 55, Worsley bid farewell to his family and embarked on his most perilous quest: to walk across Antarctica alone. David Grann tells Worsley's remarkable story with the intensity and power that have led him to be called "simply the best narrative nonfiction writer working today." Illustrated with more than fifty stunning photographs from Worsley's and Shackleton's journeys, The White Darkness is both a gorgeous keepsake volume and a spellbinding story of courage, love, and a man pushing himself to the extremes of human capacity.

A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history 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.

Now a major motion picture starring Robert Redford and Sissy Spacek, The Old Man and the Gun is here joined by two other riveting true-crime tales."The Old Man and the Gun" is the incredible story of a bank robber and prison escape artist who modeled himself after figures like Pretty Boy Floyd and who, even in his seventies, refuses to retire. "True Crime" follows the twisting investigation of a Polish detective who suspects that a novelist planted clues in his fiction to an actual murder. And "The Chameleon" recounts how a French imposter assumes the identity of a missing boy from Texas and infiltrates the boy's family, only to soon wonder whether he is the one being conned. In this mesmerizing collection, David Grann shows why he has been called a "worthy heir to Truman Capote" and "simply the best narrative nonfiction writer working today," as he takes the reader on a journey through some of the most intriguing and gripping real-life tales from around the world.

23 décembre 1991 : un incendie ravage le pavillon familial de Todd Willingham, dans la banlieue de Corsicana au Texas. Le père de famille était resté seul avec ses trois filles. Or, il est l’unique survivant. Très vite, il est accusé d’avoir volontairement provoqué l’incendie. Il est condamné à mort en 1992. Mais sa route a entretemps croisé celle d’Elizabeth Gilbert, une professeur de français visiteuse de prison. Au fil de ses entrevues avec le condamné, celle-ci finit par être convaincue de son innocence. Elle retrouve également Johnny Webb, un prisonnier qui avait témoigné contre Willingham. Délinquant notoire, celui-ci fait volte-face, arguant avoir agi à l’époque sous l’effet de cachets... Dans cette nouvelle enquête, David Grann interroge la fiabilité du système judiciaire de l’État du Texas, connu pour être le plus grand pourvoyeur de condamnés à mort. Menée dix-huit ans après les faits, l’enquête de Grann conclut à un déni de justice, montre que cette affaire contient tous les ingrédients classiques de l’erreur judiciaire. Nulle contre-expertise en effet au diagnostic de l’expert-psychiatre qui avait décrit Todd comme un “sociopathe très dangereux”… sans jamais l’avoir rencontré... Récit, enquête, plaidoyer, le texte de Grann rend avant tout compte de l’injustifiable. Il permet de prendre conscience que la peine de mort est intimement liée à toutes les formes d’exclusion et aux maux d’une société qui a besoin de boucs émissaires pour justifier sa propre défaillance. Une histoire vraie qui apporte une pièce accablante au procès qu’il reste à faire à la justice américaine.

Frédéric Bourdin est l'un des plus grands imposteurs du XXᵉ siècle, un manipulateur et un comédien hors pair. Au cours de son atypique « carrière », il s'est introduit dans des familles et foyers d'accueil… de plus de 10 pays. À 30 ans, il endosse systématiquement le rôle d'un adolescent meurtri, maltraité, en quête d'un foyer. Grann relate en particulier le plus spectaculaire de ses travestissements. Durant 5 mois, le Français va se faire passer pour Nicholas Barclay, un jeune Américain disparu. Aveuglée par l'espoir de revoir son frère, la sœur de Nicholas se rend jusqu'en Espagne pour le ramener aux États-Unis. Bourdin reproduit alors les gestes et habitudes du disparu, s'appuie sur des photographies, films et souvenirs familiaux. Jusqu'à la découverte par le F.B.I. de sa supercherie.

Morgan avait joué un tour à l'intérieur d'un tour. Il n'était pas un contre-révolutionnaire – mais un agent double. Lui et le Deuxième Front avaient agi de mèche avec Castro. Les messages radio, les communications coupées et les fausses explosions avaient participé à la mise en scène de ce que Morgan décrivit comme une "guerre fictive". Le comandante yankee, c'est William Alexander Morgan, figure héroïque de la révolution cubaine pour les uns, traître national pour les autres. Cet homme intègre n'aura eu qu'un mot à la bouche : Liberté. Mais aussi : Vengeance. En 1957, il se joint aux forces rebelles menées par Fidel Castro pour libérer Cuba du dictateur Batista. Son mobile : venger la mort de l'un de ses amis, torturé et jété aux requins pour avoir fourni des armes aux rebelles. Ce renversement politique permet l’accession au pouvoir de Fidel Castro, le même qui ordonnera qu'on le fusille, le 11 mars 1961. Salué pour sa bravoure, Morgan avait obtenu le plus haut grade, celui de commandant, à l'égal de l'autre figure étrangère de cette rébellion, l'Argentin Che Guevara. Cependant, cet Américain proche de Castro éveille bientôt des soupçons… C’est un véritable récit de guerre dont David Grann dévoile ici les péripéties, dans un climat politique brûlant, où l'espion­nage est de mise, la trahison une règle. Du moins, le croit-on. Car ce livre, c'est aussi une épopée tragique et sentimentale, le destin hors du commun d'un homme apatride, amoureux d'une guérillera. David Grann entraîne le lecteur dans un véritable thriller, bien qu'il se fonde sur des faits avérés. Il a bénéficié pour ce récit de l'ouverture des archives de la CIA, du FBI et des renseignements militaires. Dans ce reportage de haute volée, Grann fait la lumière sur les idéaux d'une révolution dont l'impact fut mondial et il réhabilite un homme qui y a joué un rôle de premier plan.

Lorsqu'en 2008, le juge Castresansa s'empare de l'affaire du meurtre de Rodrigo Rosenberg, avocat guatémaltèque estimé, il ne sait pas qu'il va ouvrir une boîte de Pandore. Dans un pays où le complot est de règle et la corruption une éthique, la suspicion règne. Car cette enquête retrace aussi l'histoire d'un pays. Par une minutieuse reconstitution des faits, Grann montre que le crime s'accomode autant de vrais mensonges que de fausses vérités. Le moteur du récit : de multiples retournements de situation. D'autant que David Grann parle par la voix. de la victime. Voix d'autant plus gênante que l'homme est mort. La vidéo devient alors l'outil de la confession, en l'occurrence publique, car diffusée sur YouTube. Cet ouvrage est aussi la chronique d'une véritable crise politique.

Il était une fois dans les Amériques, trois récits du génial David Grann à la suite. Plusieurs histoires où l'invraisemblance du réel défie les lois de la fiction, du Guatemala à Cuba, jusqu'au coeur de la forêt amazonienne. The Yankee Comandante En s'emparant d'un pan méconnu de l'histoire de la révolution cubaine, David Grann raconte le destin tragique de W. A. Morgan, le comandante yankee. Mêlant récit de guerre et épopée politique, espionnage, trahison fratricide et histoire d'amour, il dresse le portrait du cow-boy espiègle, personnage complexe qu'on croirait échappé d'un roman d'Hemingway. Un ami témoigne : "Jack Kerouac était encore en train d'imaginer ce que serait une vie sur la route, quand Morgan était déjà en train de la vivre.' Chronique d'un meurtre annoncé Lorsqu'en 2008, mandaté par l'O.N.U., le juge Castresana atterrit au Guatemala et s'empare de l'affaire du meurtre de Rodrigo Rosenberg, il ne se sait pas qu'il s'apprête à ouvrir une véritable boîte de Pandore. Dans un pays où le complot est la règle et la corruption une éthique, la suspicion règne. Par une minutieuse reconstitution des faits, David Grann démontre que le crime s'accommode autant de vrais mensonges que de fausses vérités. Enquête sur un homme dont la voix devient d'autant plus gênante qu'il est mort. Une machination tout droit sortie d'un roman de John Le Carré. La Cité perdue de Z Dans ce volume sud-américain, réédition du grand classique de David Grann adapté par James Gray. L'histoire fascinante et dramatique de Percy Fawcett, explorateur parti à la recherche d'une civilisation au milieu de l'Amazonie.

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Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched David Grann 3 Books Collection The On 28th January 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty’s ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon, the Wager was wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. Killers of the Flower 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, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. As the death toll climbed, the FBI took up the case. But the bureau badly bungled the investigation. The Lost City of Fawcett was among the last of a legendary breed of British explorers. For years he explored the Amazon and came to believe that its jungle concealed a large, complex civilization, like El Dorado. Obsessed with its discovery, he christened it the City of Z. In 1925, Fawcett headed into the wilderness with his son Jack, vowing to make history. They vanished without a trace. For the next eighty years, hordes of explorers plunged into the jungle, trying to find evidence of Fawcett's party or Z.

The Osage murders, also known as the Reign of Terror, occurred in the 1920s when members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma—who had become wealthy from oil found beneath their land—were systematically murdered. As headrights to oil revenues made them among the richest people per capita, the Osage became targets of greed-fueled violence. White settlers sought control of their wealth, often by marrying Osage members and then arranging their deaths.The growing death toll led to a federal investigation by the newly formed FBI, led by J. Edgar Hoover and field agent Tom White. White uncovered a conspiracy led by a local cattleman, William Hale, who had orchestrated a network of murders involving his nephew, Ernest Burkhart, who was married to an Osage woman. The investigation exposed the depths of corruption and racial injustice that allowed these murders to continue unchecked.The FBI successfully prosecuted Hale and his accomplices, but the case left a lasting scar on the Osage community. David Grann’s 2017 book, Killers of the Flower Moon, brought renewed attention to this dark chapter in American history, highlighting the tragedy and resilience of the Osage Nation.

David Grann Bestselling 4-Book Set brings together four gripping works of investigative journalism and historical narrative by the acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author. This collection includes Killers of the Flower Moon, an explosive true-crime story of the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI; The Lost City of Z, a thrilling tale of an explorer’s quest to uncover a vanished Amazonian civilization; The Wager, a harrowing account of shipwreck, mutiny, and survival on the high seas; and The Devil and Sherlock Holmes, a fascinating compilation of true stories exploring obsession, mystery, and intrigue. Grann’s masterful storytelling captivates readers with suspense, historical depth, and meticulous research.This David Grann Bestselling 4-Book Set Killers of the Flower Moon — 9780307742483 The Lost City of Z — 9781400078455 The Wager — 9780307742490 The Devil and Sherlock Holmes — 9780307275905

Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched David Grann 2 Books Collection Killers of the Flower A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Lost City of Z. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST “A masterful work of literary journalism crafted with the urgency of a mystery.” —The Boston Globe In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage 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, the Osage began to be killed off. The Lost City of The story of Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, the inspiration behind Conan Doyle's The Lost World Fawcett was among the last of a legendary breed of British explorers. For years he explored the Amazon and came to believe that its jungle concealed a large, complex civilization, like El Dorado. Obsessed with its discovery, he christened it the City of Z. In 1925, Fawcett headed into the wilderness with his son Jack, vowing to make history. They vanished without a trace.

Il était une fois dans les Amériques, trois récits du génial David Grann à la suite. Plusieurs histoires où l'invraisemblance du réel défie les lois de la fiction, du Guatemala à Cuba, jusqu'au coeur de la forêt amazonienne. The Yankee Comandante En s'emparant d'un pan méconnu de l'histoire de la révolution cubaine, David Grann raconte le destin tragique de W. A. Morgan, le comandante yankee. Mêlant récit de guerre et épopée politique, espionnage, trahison fratricide et histoire d'amour, il dresse le portrait du cow-boy espiègle, personnage complexe qu'on croirait échappé d'un roman d'Hemingway. Un ami témoigne : "Jack Kerouac était encore en train d'imaginer ce que serait une vie sur la route, quand Morgan était déjà en train de la vivre.' Chronique d'un meurtre annoncé Lorsqu'en 2008, mandaté par l'O.N.U., le juge Castresana atterrit au Guatemala et s'empare de l'affaire du meurtre de Rodrigo Rosenberg, il ne se sait pas qu'il s'apprête à ouvrir une véritable boîte de Pandore. Dans un pays où le complot est la règle et la corruption une éthique, la suspicion règne. Par une minutieuse reconstitution des faits, David Grann démontre que le crime s'accommode autant de vrais mensonges que de fausses vérités. Enquête sur un homme dont la voix devient d'autant plus gênante qu'il est mort. Une machination tout droit sortie d'un roman de John Le Carré. Ce livre audio contient les essais « CHRONIQUE D’UN MEURTRE ANNONCÉ » et « YANKEE COMANDANTE ». Le livre audio de « LA CITÉ PERDUE DE Z » est disponible séparément. Traduit de l’anglais (États-Unis) par Valeria Costa-Kostristky (pour “Yankee Comandante”) et par Damien Aubel (pour “Chronique d’un meurtre annoncé”) Titres originaux “A Murder Foretold” “The Yankee Comandante” Les textes ont été publiés pour la première fois en 2011 et 2012 dans le New Yorker 2011 & 2012 by David Grann Published by arrangement with The Robbins Office, Inc. International Rights Susanna Lea Associates Éditions du sous-sol, 2011 et 2013 pour les traductions françaisesPlease This audiobook is in French.