The Best American Crime Writing: 2002 Edition: The Year's Best True Crime Reporting

A riveting new anthology series€“a year€s worth of the most powerful, the most startling, the most astute and smartest, in short, the best crime journalism.

Included in this first volume are Mark Singer€s €œThe Chicken Warriors€ from The New Yorker: an up-close look at the tawdry, wildly popular, illegal world of cock-fighting; E. Jean Carrol€s €œThe Cheerleaders€ from Spin: the story of how an idyllic town€“the model for Bedford Falls in It€s a Wonderful Life€“was ravaged by murders, rapes, and suicides; and David McClintick€s €œFatal Bondage€ from Vanity Fair: the tale of a grifter with an attraction to sado-masochistic sex and serial killing. Intriguing, entertaining, compelling reading, The Best American Crime Writing is sure to become a much-anticipated annual.