BRINGING ADAM HOME

ISBN: 0061983918

Author: Standiford, Les

Condition: New

Les Standifords account of the decades-long attempt to solve the murder of Adam Walsh is chilling, heartbreaking, hopeful, and as relentlessly suspenseful as anything Ive ever read. A triumph in every way.-Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic RiverThe most significant missing child case since the Lindberghs.A taut, compelling and often touching book about a long march to justice.-Scott Turow, author of Presumed InnocentThe abduction that changed America forever, the 1981 kidnapping and murder of six-year-old Adam Walsh-son of John Walsh, host of the Fox TV series Americas Most Wanted-in Hollywood, Florida, was a crime that went unsolved for a quarter of a century. Bringing Adam Home by author Les Standiford is a harrowing account of the terrible crime and its dramatic consequences, the emotional story of a father and mothers efforts to seek justice and resolve the loss of their child, and a compelling portrait of Miami Beach Homicide Detective Joe Matthews, whose unwavering dedication brought the Adam Walsh case to its resolution.