In 1972, a Fairchild plane crashed in the Andes mountains. The survivors were hopelessly lost in one of the most remote places on earth. After eight days of heavy snowfall, the rescue attempt was abandoned. Even if the plane could be found, the likelihood of the forty-five passengers and crew being discovered alive was remote.

Lt Colonel John Paul Vann went to Vietnam in 1962, but soon became appalled by the slaughter, leaking his pessimistic assessments to the US press corps in Saigon. Neil Sheehan was among them, and became fascinated by the angry Vann, befriended him, and followed his tragic and reckless career.

Rommy Squirrel Gandolph is an inmate on death row for a triple murder. His slow progress towards exectution is nearing completion when Arthur Raven, a corporate lawyer and Rommy's reluctant representative, receives word of new evidence that will exonerate Gandolph.

The only publication authorized by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks of the final report of the 9/11 Commission.

Presents an hour-by-hour account of the 12 days in 1865 between President Abraham Lincoln's assassination and the capture and death of his murderer, John Wilkes Booth. This book tells the dramatic story through the eyes of the hunters and the hunted, making clear why Booth refused to be taken alive when at last he was cornered by the US cavalry.

A story of war, love, comradeship, danger and heroism. From the day Rick Rescorla joined the British Army to fight in Rhodesia, everything in his remarkable life was preparing him for an act of generosity at the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001 that would transcend all that had gone before.