Bringing Adam Home: The Abduction That Changed America - Hardcover

Matthews, Joe; Standiford, Les

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 006198390X ISBN 13: 9780061983900

Publisher: ECCO Press, 2011

Synopsis

HardCover Pub Date: 2011 Pages: 304 in Publisher: Ecco Before Adam Walsh there were no faces on milk cartons no Amber Alerts no National Center for Missing and Exploited Children no federal databases of crimes against children is no pedophile registry . His 1981 abduction and murder-unsolved for over a quarter of a century-forever changed America. One sunny July morning in 1981. Rev Walsh and her six-year-old son Adam stopped by the local Sears to pick up some new lamps. Enchanted by a video game at the store's entrance. Adam begged Rev to let him try it out while she shopped. When she returned a few minutes later. Adam was gone. The shock of Adam's murder. and of the inability of the police and the FBI to find his killer. radically altered American innocence and our ideas about childhood. Gone forever were the days when parents would allow their kids out of the house with t...

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Product Description

Relates the full, 27-year story behind the abduction and murder of Adam Walsh, the 6-year-old son of America's Most Wanted host John Walsh, as well as the decades-long search for the boy's elusive killer. 100,000 first printing.

Review

"[M]ystery writer Les Standiford, in collaboration with Detective Sgt. Joe Matthews, has written a riveting and page-turning account of this heart-wrenching story."--BookReporter.com

"Compelling, bittersweet... ably fleshes out the difficult yet familiar story with style, pathos and relevant historical detail."--Miami Herald

"Standiford and Matthews relate Matthews' quest skillfully."--Dallas Morning News

"An essential read for those interested in forensic science and true crime."--Library Journal

"[A] page turner...hopeful and heartbreaking, Bringing Adam Home is tough to forget."--People

"BRINGING ADAM HOME is a riveting account of a child abduction and murder that goes unsolved for twenty-seven years--both an unsettling expose of police incompetence and a portrait of an extraordinary and dedicated detective."--Joyce Carol Oates

"Bringing Adam Home is one of the finest true-crime books since Thomas Thompson's Blood and Money...This remarkable story will bring readers to tears of grief - and rage."--Associated Press

"[A] heartbreaking story of incompetent police and determined parents... Novelist and nonfiction author Les Standiford does a masterful job of re-creation, reporting and research... readers will be haunted by the maladroit investigation and the added anguish this caused the Walshes."--Los Angeles Times

"BRINGING ADAM HOME is a maddening, terrifying and ultimately triumphant book. Les Standiford explores the injustice and finally justice surrounding the murder of Adam Walsh. You will cry and rage but you will not be able to put this book down until you finish it. My God! What a book!"--Ann Hood, author of THE RED THREAD and THE KNITTING CIRCLE

"Not since IN COLD BLOOD has the story of a terrible crime been told with such elegance and power....Heartbreaking and hypnotically suspenseful."--Joseph Finder, New York Times bestselling author of VANISHED

Edition details

• Publisher: ECCO Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 006198390X
• ISBN 13: 9780061983900
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 320