{"product_id":"deadline-arizona-murder-corruption-the-mob-and-americas-greatest-journalism-crusade-tpb","title":"Deadline Arizona: Murder, Corruption, the Mob, and America's Greatest Journalism Crusade | TPB","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe true story of the only car-bomb assassination of an American journalist—and the band of reporters who risked everything to finish the story his killers tried to bury. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen \u003ci\u003eArizona Republic\u003c\/i\u003e investigative reporter Don Bolles staggered from his bomb-shattered car in 1976, he left behind three dying-breath clues: “\u003ci\u003eThe Mafia . . . Emprise . . . Find John Adamson\u003c\/i\u003e.” His murder was meant to silence his exposé on organized crime, land fraud, and political corruption at the highest levels of Arizona power. Instead, it ignited an unprecedented act of journalistic defiance.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eTimed to the fiftieth anniversary of the landmark Arizona Project, \u003ci\u003eDeadline Arizona\u003c\/i\u003e follows in cinematic detail nearly forty journalists led by \u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e editor Bob Greene who descended on Arizona to finish Bolles’s investigation—stepping into a murder scene while the killers remained at large and another car bomb seemed a real possibility. Combining the propulsive true-crime storytelling of \u003ci\u003eKillers of the Flower Moon\u003c\/i\u003e, the investigative depth of \u003ci\u003eSay Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e, and the institutional intrigue of \u003ci\u003eAll the President’s Men\u003c\/i\u003e, bestselling author Thomas Maier has penned a gripping account of murder, corruption, and the fight for journalistic truth.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThrough newly uncovered personal archives, FBI files, court records, and interviews with surviving participants, Maier reconstructs the murder and the extraordinary investigation that followed. The Arizona Project uncovered a sprawling web of mob influence, political malfeasance, and business fraud reaching into the circle of conservative icon Barry Goldwater.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe story climaxes in the multimillion-dollar libel trial brought against the journalists by wealthy rancher and liquor baron Kemper Marley, widely suspected of masterminding Bolles’s murder. Goldwater himself took the stand to defend Marley—the man many believe got away with murder.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFacing legal warfare, political intimidation, and the threat of violence, the Arizona Project transformed investigative journalism forever and established the principle that \u003ci\u003eyou can kill the reporter, but you cannot kill the story\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46081977647295,"sku":"9798895153024","price":39.59,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/1689\/8751\/files\/460720-77f0553f90fc4c1be408863998da525f394b829c8826b111799c85d691c33b1e.jpg?v=1787576532","url":"https:\/\/www.popweasel.co.nz\/products\/deadline-arizona-murder-corruption-the-mob-and-americas-greatest-journalism-crusade-tpb","provider":"Pop Weasel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}