On the evening of June 18, 1984, Alan Berg, an outspoken Denver talk-show host, was murdered in front of his home, shot in the face as he emerged from his Volkswagen. The crime received a great deal of coverage, and while it was surprising that the killing of a local radio personality would command network TV airtime and headlines across the United States, the media’s intuition about the death was right. The slaying had political, racial, religious, and historical overtones.

An irrepressible loudmouth, Berg would argue with anyone about anything at any time. This rude comic genius was operating in a new medium – talk radio – and presented himself as the West’s Last Angry Man, earning the highest ratings ever given to a talk-show host in his market. In one local survey, he won the award for being the most liked and most disliked media figure in Denver. His humor was always political, and he was merciless with sanctimonious right-wing Christians or Ku Klux Klan members who called his show, but he could be just as nasty with knee-jerk liberals or self-righteous members of minority groups. He criticized without any prejudice.

His death unleashed the FBI’s largest investigation into domestic terrorism in American history and the murder weapon was found in the home of Gary Lee Yarbrough of Sandpoint, Idaho. Yarbrough was a member of a heavily armed, neo-Nazi faction of young men, called the Order, who preached revolution against Jews, African Americans, homosexuals, feminists, and white people who supported progressive causes. Their first assassination target was Alan Berg.

Talked to Death details the rise, growth, and influence of these organizations -- self-acknowledged descendants of Hitler’s Nazi party -- and shows how the opposing forces of a truth-telling Jewish radio commentator and a band of violent racists collided at the moment of Berg’s death. The book was the first to document the dangerous phenomenon of groups like the Order, and heralded darker events. In the 1990s, white rage surfaced again and again: in Timothy McVeigh’s bombing of an Oklahoma City federal building in 1995, which killed 168 people; in Mark Fuhrman’s racist role in the O.J. Simpson trial; in the recorded messages of the Columbine High School killers in 1999; and in the increasing intolerance broadcast on America’s airwaves and promoted in certain religions. The story in Talked to Death would echo again and again in our culture and in future books written by Stephen Singular, laying the foundation for much to come.

On March 19, 1985, gunshots rang out in the early morning stillness of Garden Grove, California. Police soon found the body of Linda Marie Brown, a young wife and mother, brutally murdered in her own bedroom. Minutes later, Linda’s stepdaughter, 14-year-old Cinnamon Brown, confessed to the shooting. Shaken and confused, the pretty blonde ninth-grader would go to prison for years, hiding the truth of the crime behind a wall of silence in order to protect the sociopath who’d orchestrated the killing through lies, fear, and sexual manipulation -- her father, David Brown.

A Killing in the Family takes you on the shocking journey of Cinnamon Brown and many others who were duped -- if not destroyed -- by David Brown, before Cinnamon finally helped bring him to justice. This book became the NBC-TV mini-series, “Love, Lies, and Murder,” and a “New York Times” bestseller.

Knute Rockne, Frank Leahy, Ara Parseghian, and Lou Holtz. The names of these coaches are synonymous with one of the few teams in college football that can truly be called a “dynasty” -- the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame. Owners of the two highest winning percentages in college football history, Rockne and Leahy captured seven national championships between them. Parseghian was responsible for a pair of national titles, while Holtz won one during his reign in South Bend, Indiana. Now these four legendary men are seen through the eyes of the inimitable Edward “Moose” Krause who came to know and admire these football legends during his own 61-year-careeer at Notre Dame.

Completed just before his death in 1992, this fascinating memoir combines Moose’s own words with those of nearly 100 former Fighting Irish players, coaches, and administrators to paint a touching portrait of these four great gridiron teachers, and of Moose himself. Notre Dame’s only two-sport Hall of Famer, in football and basketball, he was a three-time All-American player under Rockne, coached under Leahy, hired Parseghian while serving as Notre Dame’s athletic director, and became a close adviser to Holtz. A poor boy from Chicago’s stockyards, Moose rose to become a legend on and off the field – “Mr. Notre Dame.” In showing intimate sides of him never written about before, the book is about far more than football yet the game is the heart of the story.

Moose recalls Rockne’s inspiring locker room orations and courage in the face of adversity. Rock once coached from a hearse parked on the sidelines, as painful phlebitis wracked his legs. Moose vividly remembers Leahy, the ultimate perfectionist, stalking the sidelines barking out orders in his famous Irish brogue, while refusing to let the Irish lose a single game between 1946-49. Moose speaks warmly of his years with Parseghian, who brought Notre Dame back into the ranks of the college football elite. And finally, he talks revealingly about Holtz, whose ferocity on the field was matched only by his humor off it. An incredibly driven man, Holtz coached Notre Dame to an undefeated season and the national title in 1988.

Interwoven through these stories and Moose’s own is a blow-by-blow account of the Irish’s topsy-turvy 1992 season, when the team bounced back from an early loss and a tie to win seven straight games and the Cotton Bowl.

Notre Dame’s Greatest Coaches takes you right inside the huddle during the four most glorious periods in Irish football history. It tells the saga of a sport, a country, and of the enormous changes that the game and our nation experienced during Moose Krause’s long and extraordinary lifetime. As Moose himself once said of his youth, “People had a different attitude about sports back then. They were just happy to be at the game.” Moose never lost his love for the game, and in this deeply felt memoir, even the most jaded sports fan will recognize and feel that love.

Sweet Evil is the story of Jennifer Reali and Brian Hood of Colorado Springs, which the “Los Angeles Times” has called “the Vatican of evangelical Christianity.” Both were married and had young children. While Jennifer’s husband, Ben, was away on military maneuvers, she started an affair with Brian, who’s lost interest in his wife, Dianne, after she contracted lupus. Jennifer fell in love with Brian, a handsome, charming, and deviously religious man. He used the Scriptures to convince her that in the eyes of God it was a sin to commit adultery, yet it would not be a sin for Jennifer to kill his suffering wife. Jennifer, an intelligent and sensitive young woman, initially resisted these thoughts, but over time she gave into them and began taking action. If the Bible said this was all right, maybe it was. Brian’s manipulation and brainwashing had sunk in: the only way for Jennifer and him to have a life together was for them to get rid of Dianne. In September 1999, Jennifer dressed up in her husband’s army fatigues and a ski mask, so she would look like a man. Carrying Ben’s loaded revolver, she hid in the bushes next to the building where Dianne was attending a lupus support meeting. As Dianne walked out into the night, Jennifer ran up to her and fired one shot, wounding the woman. She fired a second one, right into her heart, and then sprinted away while shedding her husband’s clothes. Back home, in a state of guilt and numbness, she lured Ben into their bed and they made love. But something felt wrong.

Two days later, Jennifer walked into the Colorado Springs Police Department and confessed everything -- how she and Brian had planned the murder and how she’d shot Dianne to death on the pavement at the lupus center. The murder really wasn’t her fault, she told the cops, because Brian had talked her into it. He’d used the Bible, quoting specific passages that he said made doing this permissible in the eyes of the Lord. This “good and Godly man,” as she described Brian to homicide detectives, had persuaded her that divorce was a sin, but murder was not. And she’d gone along with him, against everything she believed in, because she’d wanted the two of them to be together.

Both were charged with first-degree murder and faced the possibility of the death penalty. At first, she tried for an insanity defense but then agreed to testify against Brian in exchange for a life sentence. After a highly dramatic set of trials, Brian received fourteen years in prison and she got life without parole. The case was over but for years it would continue to haunt: How could an educated woman from an upper middle class family be convinced by her lover and religious mentor that murder could be justified by Christianity? How could Jennifer have thrown away her promising life and her children, all because of a false prophet? In prison, she now writes gospel music, counsels at-risk young women, and seeks forgiveness for the one and only mistake she ever made. Sweet Evil is a great cautionary tale, especially for today’s climate, in which fundamentalists of various religions are engaging in violence in the name of God.

Fifty-year-old Gerry Boggs was one of the wealthiest and most eligible bachelors in the ski town of Steamboat Springs, Colorado -- until Jill Coit showed up. Captivated by her sexy Southern drawl, good looks, and sultry charm, Gerry fell hard. Following a fast courtship, they married but then he discovered his bride’s dark secret. She’d been married to ten men, some of them more than once, and she’d married a few of them while still married to another man. A couple of these husbands had ended up dead. On an October afternoon in 1993, Gerry Boggs was found murdered in his Steamboat Springs home, shot in the head and savagely beaten with a shovel.

For 35 years, Jill Coit had been spreading her lethal web of sex and murder from one end of the country to the other. Behind the beauty queen smile, was a dangerous femme fatale who took delight in preying on innocent (and usually wealthy) men. With fifteen aliases, countless forged birth certificates, and a predatory allure, this “black widow” killer had always stayed one step ahead of the law -- until the death of Gerry Boggs. She’s now serving a life sentence.

Charmed to Death became a 1995 Fox TV movie.

With this book, Stephen Singular’s career began to evolve, his role shifting from that of a journalistic observer to being a direct participant in the “Case of the Century.”

In the early hours of June 13, 1994, while investigating the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, LAPD Homicide Detective Mark Fuhrman uncovered evidence destined to become the cornerstone of the prosecution’s case in the trial of O.J. Simpson. As the legal epic unfolded, Fuhrman himself -- his character, professional conduct, and racial attitudes -- took center stage. What emerged from Fuhrman in the trial was an appalling LAPD history of manufactured evidence, beating up suspects, and vicious bigotry acted out from behind the safety of a badge. The very same neo-Nazi behavior Singular had written about in Talked to Death now emerged as a dark underbelly of the LAPD. White supremacist attitudes and actions had moved from outside the legal system to being alive and at work inside a major metropolitan police force. But that was just the start of this story.

In August 1994, Singular was contacted by a source within LA’s law enforcement community who not only told him about these disturbing police factions but gave him information about four critical pieces of evidence in the Simpson case -- pieces unknown to both the prosecution and defense. Singular himself investigated this evidence and infiltrated the LAPD crime lab in search of the truth. What he discovered earned him a critical role on the defense team and was documented in a book proposal, which became the basis for Legacy of Deception. The proposal was leaked to the office of L.A. District Attorney Gil Garcetti and then subpoenaed by Simpson prosecutor Christopher Darden. In his 1996 “New York Times” bestseller about the case, In Contempt, Darden wrote had this to say about the proposal, “I was basically looking at a blueprint of O.J. Simpson’s defense, months before it became operational. Clearly this guy [Singular] had spent more than a brief moment with [Simpson attorneys] Cochran and Douglas. Singular was writing about information that hadn’t been made public at the time he wrote his treatment…Later, I would wonder how much Simpson had paid for a defense that really came from a true crime writer.”

Running through Legacy of Deception was the central and growing theme of Singular’s work: the dangerous mentality he’d begun writing about in Talked to Death a decade earlier was entering the mainstream -- through the media, the legal system, and the culture at large. No longer just a fringe issue, it was becoming an increasing part of American life. Instead of investigating our reality, in the best tradition of journalism, we’d begun taking things at face value and jumping to conclusions.

What did this mean for our society as a whole? This question would arise again and again in future books.

As the head of the high-rolling Creative Artists Agency from 1975-95, Michael Ovitz was called the most powerful (and most feared) man in Hollywood. A full-scale business biography, Power to Burn offers the first complete, unauthorized portrait of one of the most formidable and famous, yet least known media moguls. His story really began in the mid-1970s when Ovitz and four colleagues bolted the legendary William Morris Agency to start CAA. They had a $100,000 line of credit and a borrowed office furnished with card tables and folding chairs. Ovitz was 28 years old, hungry, and scared.

Fifteen years later, from its I.M. Pie-designed fortress on Wilshire Boulevard, CAA had come to control a multibillion-dollar client list that boasted some of the biggest moneymakers in Hollywood: Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, and Barbra Streisand. The Morris Agency was now the one running scared, as Ovitz’s cutthroat negotiating tactics provoked accusations throughout Hollywood that CAA was trying to put its competitors out of business. Ovitz saw Hollywood agenting as not merely as a job, but as an extension of the art of war and he was ruthless about winning.

Superagents had come and gone, but LA had never seen his like before. Always dressed in Armani, unnervingly reserved and quiet, Ovtiz took agenting into uncharted territory, from brokering the sale of MCA to Japan’s Matsushita Corporation to creating a new marketing campaign for Coca-Cola. Nationally and then internationally, he seemed to be pulling the strings behind every big deal in the entertainment industry and beyond. But at the height of his success, a rebellion against him was growing inside of CAA and before it could erupt into full-scale revolution, he left the company he’d started.

He shocked the entertainment world by becoming president of Disney -- the start of his stunning downfall and disappearance from the Hollywood scene.

In 1976, at age 33, David Geffen was faced with a serious challenge. He’d just lost his job as vice chairman of the Warner Bros. film studio. Six years earlier, he’d founded Asylum Records and brought out albums by Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, and the Eagles, but those glory days, his critics believed, were behind him. The skinny, outspoken, curly-haired Brooklyn native, they said, was little more than a common hustler.

Undeterred, he founded Geffen Records in 1980 and a decade later he owned the best independent record label in America. He’d also become a successful producer of Broadway plays (“Cats” and “M. Butterfly”) and hit movies (“Risky Business” and “Beetlejuice”). Selling Geffen Records in 1990, he was now touted as the first self-made billionaire in Hollywood history. Yet just as he was experiencing his greatest achievements, he was being bitterly attacked for his “dishonesty.” For years, Geffen had described himself as bisexual, but now gay activists demanded that he step forward as a homosexual, donate millions to AIDS research, and declare his sexual identity to the world. After a nasty public battle, they got their wish.

This book is the first full-length biography ever written of Geffen and takes readers on a remarkable journey from his difficult youth to partying at Studio 54 to his failures and grand triumphs in Hollywood. The secrets behind his success are revealed along the way.

On the morning of December 26, 1996, JonBenet Ramsey was found murdered in the basement of her parents’ million-dollar Boulder, Colorado home. The death of the 6-year-old beauty queen horrified the city’s residents and immediately captured the country’s interest. As throngs of reporters swarmed into Boulder, local and national networks flashed images of JonBenet -- provocatively dressed in pageant outfits -- across American TV screens and around the world.

Like the talk show media, the Boulder Police Department focused its suspicions almost exclusively on John and Patsy Ramsey. Despite pressure from the police to arrest the Ramseys, the D.A.’s office, led by Alex Hunter, looked for new leads and other possible suspects. With conflict between the D.A. and the cops intensifying, the investigation gradually came to a standstill.

Expanding on the role he’d played a few years earlier in O.J. Simpson case, Singular decided to look deeper. Not content to pass judgment on the Ramseys without conclusive evidence, and convinced there was a reason the legal system was wary about prosecuting the case, he followed his own trail into the murder. It took him from the local bars to the county jail and onto shocking Internet web sites featuring images of girls the same age as JonBenet who’d been tied up and sexually tortured -- for pleasure and profit. Instead of simply wanting to know who killed JonBenet Ramsey, Singular began to question what part of our culture and what kind of child exploitation may have caused her death?

His search led him into the seamy worlds of tabloid journalism, local politics, child beauty pageants, child pornography, and the big business of Internet sex just as it was taking off in cyberspace. His discovery -- of a subculture that sexually uses and abuses young children -- motivated him to share his research with both the D.A. and the Boulder police. Presumed Guilty is his account of a journey into one of the darkest corners of American life.

If anyone could be called a living legend in the world of pro sports, Kareem is that figure. Dubbed “history’s greatest basketball player” by “Time Magazine,” Abdul-Jabbar will live forever in NBA lore, but even legends can find themselves at a crossroads.

Tired of life in Los Angeles, disillusioned with the state of basketball, and devastated by the recent death of his mother, Kareem accepted an invitation from the White Mountain Apache tribe in Arizona to coach high school basketball on their reservation. He jumps at the offer but encounters a complex reality: the kids on the Alchesay Falcons teams don’t easily embrace what he’s trying to teach them, yet gradually they learn from him and he learns from them. He teaches them to get out of their comfort zone and try new things, both in sports and in life. In return, they rekindle his passion for the game and the book describe this mutual process of discovery. Kareem connects with the kids and their customs, while finding new truths about the links between Native Americans, African Americans, and the inter-racial core of our nation’s heritage.

This is a story about the things we have in common and the things that still divide us in terms of race and history. We get to know the kids, their families, the coaches, the town of Whiteriver, Alchesay High, and the tribe -- but most of all we get closer to Kareem. Well into middle age, he wrote the book to give back, but in doing so he received more than he ever gave.

Published during the heated 2000 presidential race, this is the story of the first Jewish-American to run for Vice President of the United States. It documents Lieberman’s Connecticut childhood and how his religious upbringing shaped his personal and political views. It describes his Yale years and rise through the Democratic ranks to become one of the most influential members of the U.S. Senate, providing a complete log of his voting record and political accomplishments.

This e-book tells of a man nearing 40 who awakens one morning and realizes he’s forgotten how to live. Everything has stopped working and he’s become trapped inside old angers and fears, with no idea how to change. Through a friend, he meets an extremely unusual teacher who introduces him to parts of himself that he never knew existed. Reconnecting with them, he’s gradually transformed into leading a new life. Nothing in the book is predictable or ordinary yet it reflects the experience of countless others who are passing through these strange and difficult (and sometimes magical) times. The Heart of Change describes healing in an entirely new way.

On April 20, Adolf Hitler’s birthday, two students opened fire at Denver`s Columbine High School, wounding twenty students and killing twelve kids, one teacher, and themselves. It was the largest school shooting in American history and shocked the nation. In its aftermath, Singular began writing about the insidious infiltration of rage and bloodshed in our society and this book was the frightening and disturbing result of that investigation. Since the 1984 murder of Denver talk show host Alan Berg by neo-Nazis, Singular has charted the growth of terrorism, hate, and violence as they’ve moved from the fringes into the mainstream of American society -- invading the media, schools, workplaces, even houses of worship. Here examines the political landscape, religious organizations, legal systems, journalistic principles, and social structures that have encouraged Americans to commit these crimes. Today’s civil war is being fought from inside the hearts of individuals. Like a cancer, it is invading our institutions and undermining them from within.

The answer to Singular`s probing question -- How did hatred and violence become the order of the day? -- may lie in one of humanity`s oldest and saddest historical lessons: a society that violates or destroys its ideals and underlying principles will eventually descend into violence. As the new millennium begins, Singular asks us to re-examine this critical lesson.

Bill Daniels had planned on joining his brother in the insurance business in Hobbes, New Mexico, but felt there may have been something more for him, if he could only find it. In 1952, he stumbled into his destiny while eating a sandwich in a Denver tavern, when he saw television for the first time. It was a prizefight carried from New York City and he was fascinated that these moving pictures could be transmitted live into the bar. Would people in small towns around the West pay for a service like this, he wondered, if he could figure out how to get it to them?

Daniels soon learned about something called cable TV, which had been invented in the East. When he put together a strategy and group of partners to bring cable to Casper, Wyoming, he didn’t know that he was laying the foundation for a new industry -- the most significant media business of the last half of the 20^th Century. From these modest roots, his cable enterprise grew and forever changed America’s relationship with sports, politics, entertainment, and the news. Daniels was there, with money and advice, when CNN, ESPN, and other media giants came into being.

From the start, cable had needed a scrappy, tireless individual, unafraid of a huge fight against long odds and established interests. It had needed a man of personal charisma, vision, ethics, and imagination, always willing to spend money and take the struggle right onto the floor of the U.S. Congress. The man who stepped forward to play this role and become the father of the cable TV industry was Bill Daniels. Companies he eventually owned or shaped employed more than 100,000 people and managed over $2 billion worth of cable deals in a single year. He not only dreamed a huge dream for himself and America but made it come to life -- still influencing his country every time we turn on a TV.

The Internet has made many enterprises easier since its rise to popularity in the mid-90s: book sales, personal correspondence, and, in the case of John Robinson, serial murder. Even before he ever went online, Robinson had forged a life consistent with a killer’s profile. Despite being fired and arrested numerous times for fraud and theft, he wriggled out of serious trouble thanks to a smooth manner and cunning intelligence. For decades, Robinson's more sinister activities escaped the notice of nearly everyone, including law enforcement and, incredibly, his own wife. But what makes Robinson's story uniquely disturbing is the presence of the World Wide Web and the ease with which a murderer can use it. Online, Robinson frequented chat rooms and sites dedicated to the lurid underground world of bondage and sadomasochism. In this anonymous space, he was free to assume honey-tongued new identities that he used to lure women, especially those in vulnerable situations, to Kansas with promises of employment, protection or sex. Their subsequent disappearances were explained away with letters that appeared to be written by the victims but were actually typed by the killer on pieces of paper the women had previously signed. Ultimately, dogged law enforcement officials were able to catch up with Robinson and put him on trial after finding gruesome evidence of his deeds. After reading this book, every reader will walk a little more warily by his or her computer, and wonder who might be hiding behind a given online nickname.

It isn’t just that he holds the NFL record for catches in a single game (twenty) or that he's the most feared wide receiver in the game. It’s also his penchant for unique self-expression -- spiking the ball on the midfield Texas lone star in front of a hostile Dallas Cowboy crowd, pulling a Sharpie from his sock to sign a game ball after a touchdown, and dancing with a cheerleader's pom-poms after another TD. Never politically correct and always controversial, Terrell Owens has transformed himself into “TO,” the outrageous gridiron personality who rocked the entire NFL and sports landscape. But Owens is more than touchdowns, dancing, and celebrations. In this insightful book, he’s full of sharp-eyed observations about the demanding, insane phenomenon that is pro football. In Catch This! Owens takes readers back to his hardscrabble childhood in rural Alabama, where he was raised by a stern grandmother and loving mother. At the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, the once small, bullied boy transformed himself into a very large man with a super body and iron will to succeed. He takes us behind his apprenticeship to -- and eventual eclipsing of -- the legendary 49ers wide receiver Jerry Rice. He pulls no punches when it comes to his extremely public fight with San Francisco coach Steve Mariucci -- they didn't speak at all during the crucial final weeks of the 2001 season. And, finally, he lets loose on the free agent scandal that shook the NFL in 2004, revealing the truth behind the NFL’s attempt to deny him free agency and his landing with the Philadelphia Eagles. For those who think they know both Terrell Owens and TO, catch this story.

One of twelve poor children, only seven of whom survived to adulthood, Michael McGivney left a Baltimore school in 1865 to take a spoon-making job in a brass factory. He eventually entered the priesthood, but felt called to do more for his faith and in 1882 he brought together two dozen Catholic laymen in the basement of St. Mary’s Church in New Haven, Connecticut. Father McGivney started an organization for Catholic men named after Christopher Columbus -- the “Knights of Columbus” -- that today has 1.7 million members worldwide. Pope John Paul II himself referred to the Knights as “the strong right arm of the Catholic Church.”

By Their Works is a tribute to those Knights who’ve changed and improved the lives of family, friends, and communities since the end of the 19^th Century. Some of the men in the book are famous – including President John F. Kennedy, Babe Ruth, and Vince Lombardi -- but many others are not well known figures who’ve done extraordinary things in war time, to alleviate poverty or suffering, and during the September 11 crisis that shook America in 2001. Through acts of charity, sacrifice, and courage, they embody the spirit of the Knights of Columbus. By Their Works is a powerful and compelling portrait of real faith in action and lives lived in service to others.

To all appearances, Dennis Rader was a model citizen in the small town of Park City, Kansas, where he had lived with his family nearly his entire life. He was a local compliance office, a former Boy Scout leader, the president of his church congregation, and a seemingly ordinary father and husband. But Rader’s average surface belied the existence of a dark, sadistic other self: he was the BTK serial killer.

BTK had terrorized Wichita for 31 years, not only with his brutal, sexually motivated crimes, but also through his taunting, elusive communications with law enforcement. In 1974, BTK committed his first murders -- torturing and strangling four members of the Otero family -- then writing the police an audacious letter and labeling himself as BTK (for Bind, Torture, Kill). He stalked and killed a series of 10 victims but then apparently stopped in 1991. Law enforcement remained confounded until 2004, when BTK began writing another string of letters that would finally lead to his arrest.

In Unholy Messenger, Singular delves into the disturbing life and crimes of Rader to explore fully -- for the first time -- the most dangerous and complex serial killer of our generation and the man who embodied, at once, astonishing extremes of normality and abnormality. Drawing on extensive interviews with Rader’s pastor, congregation, detectives, and psychologists who worked the case, and also on Rader’s unnervingly detailed 32-hour confession, Singular recounts the year prior to his arrest and its aftermath. Woven throughout are detailed accounts of each BTK crime and his bids for public attention, as well as the police investigation, and the wrenching impact of his deception on his family, church, and heartland community.

The result is a chilling story of a man considered a “spiritual leader” by his pastor and congregation, who turned out to be the devil next door. More than just true crime, Unholy Messenger is a powerful, thoroughly engrossing examination of the intersection between good and evil, and of the psychology and spirituality of a killer in whom faith and bloodshed converged.