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- catalog abstract "Early on the morning of September 22, 1986, Mike Wayne Jackson - age forty, a drifter, in and out of jail for almost twenty years, exhausted, filthy, at the end of his rope - entered the annals of major crime. Stepping out of his house on a quiet residential street in Indianapolis, he shot and killed the man who was approaching: his newly appointed probation officer, a man he barely knew, a much-loved husband and father named Tom Gahl. Before the day was over, Jackson. Would twice again commit murder. By nightfall he would be the most sought-after criminal at large in America. Bringing us close to Jackson, his world, and his victims, Alec Wilkinson carries crime reportage to a new level in a book that combines the pace, range, and intricacy of a novel with scrupulously authentic fact as it tells a riveting story that is profoundly emblematic of American violence, with its great burden of grief. We follow Jackson from the moment of the. First shooting through his frantic rampage in stolen trucks and cars - his victims robbed, killed, kidnapped, or frightened nearly to death - to a small town outside St. Louis. We see him pursued by local police, state troopers, and F.B.I. agents, hiding out in or around the town - no one is ever quite sure where he is - for many long days. We enter the lives of the terrorized local residents and the dogged, tireless, working days and nights of the people, from sheriffs. To Indian-style trackers, whose work is the chase and capture of dangerous criminals. We come to know Jackson through the eyes of his mother and his wife as they struggle to understand the disordered, needy, terrifying, yet sometimes touching man whose fate is entangled with their own. And, most deeply, we come to know Nancy Gahl, the young widow of the murdered probation officer. Wilkinson evokes the very nature and shape of grief as he tells, in quiet and almost. Overwhelming detail, what Nancy experiences from day to day as she and her two sons try to cope with the death of the husband and father they loved so much. Alec Wilkinson has looked deep into the heart of what has become a major American concern: our violence, the agents of that violence, and the consequences of their acts in the lives their rage has altered forever.".
- catalog contributor b3997113.
- catalog created "1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1993.".
- catalog description "Early on the morning of September 22, 1986, Mike Wayne Jackson - age forty, a drifter, in and out of jail for almost twenty years, exhausted, filthy, at the end of his rope - entered the annals of major crime. Stepping out of his house on a quiet residential street in Indianapolis, he shot and killed the man who was approaching: his newly appointed probation officer, a man he barely knew, a much-loved husband and father named Tom Gahl. Before the day was over, Jackson.".
- catalog description "First shooting through his frantic rampage in stolen trucks and cars - his victims robbed, killed, kidnapped, or frightened nearly to death - to a small town outside St. Louis. We see him pursued by local police, state troopers, and F.B.I. agents, hiding out in or around the town - no one is ever quite sure where he is - for many long days. We enter the lives of the terrorized local residents and the dogged, tireless, working days and nights of the people, from sheriffs.".
- catalog description "Overwhelming detail, what Nancy experiences from day to day as she and her two sons try to cope with the death of the husband and father they loved so much. Alec Wilkinson has looked deep into the heart of what has become a major American concern: our violence, the agents of that violence, and the consequences of their acts in the lives their rage has altered forever.".
- catalog description "To Indian-style trackers, whose work is the chase and capture of dangerous criminals. We come to know Jackson through the eyes of his mother and his wife as they struggle to understand the disordered, needy, terrifying, yet sometimes touching man whose fate is entangled with their own. And, most deeply, we come to know Nancy Gahl, the young widow of the murdered probation officer. Wilkinson evokes the very nature and shape of grief as he tells, in quiet and almost.".
- catalog description "Would twice again commit murder. By nightfall he would be the most sought-after criminal at large in America. Bringing us close to Jackson, his world, and his victims, Alec Wilkinson carries crime reportage to a new level in a book that combines the pace, range, and intricacy of a novel with scrupulously authentic fact as it tells a riveting story that is profoundly emblematic of American violence, with its great burden of grief. We follow Jackson from the moment of the.".
- catalog extent "225 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Violent act.".
- catalog identifier "0679415076 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Violent act.".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : A.A. Knopf,".
- catalog relation "Violent act.".
- catalog spatial "Indiana Indianapolis".
- catalog spatial "Indiana".
- catalog subject "364.1/523/0977252 20".
- catalog subject "Fugitives from justice Indiana Indianapolis Biography.".
- catalog subject "Gahl, Tom, -1986.".
- catalog subject "HV6248.J215 W55 1992".
- catalog subject "Jackson, Mike Wayne.".
- catalog subject "Murder Indiana Indianapolis Case studies.".
- catalog subject "Murder victims Indiana Biography.".
- catalog subject "Murderers Indiana Indianapolis Biography.".
- catalog subject "Police murders Indiana Indianapolis Case studies.".
- catalog subject "Police spouses Indiana Biography.".
- catalog title "A violent act / Alec Wilkinson.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "Case studies. fast".
- catalog type "text".