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By Gary Webb, Eric Webb, Robert Parry, Tom Loftus

ISBN-10: 1583229329

ISBN-13: 9781583229323

Author note: Eric Webb (Editor), Bob Parry (Afterword), Robert Parry (Afterword), Tom Loftus (Foreword)

Gary Webb had an inborn journalistic tendency to trace down corruption and disclose it. For over thirty-four years, he wrote tales approximately corruption from county, kingdom, and federal degrees. He had a virtually magnetic influence to those sorts of tales, and it used to be nearly as though the tales came across him. It used to be his reward, and, eventually, it used to be his downfall.

He used to be top identified for his tale Dark Alliance, written for the San Jose Mercury information in 1996. In it Webb associated the CIA to the crack-cocaine epidemic in la through the Iran Contra scandal. His in simple terms released publication, Dark Alliance continues to be a vintage of up to date journalism. yet his lifestyles consisted of even more than this one tale, and The Killing Game is a suite of his top investigative tales from his starting on the Kentucky publish to his finish on the Sacramento information & assessment. It comprises Webb's sequence on the Kentucky put up on prepared crime within the coal undefined, on the Cleveland undeniable broker on Ohio State's negligent scientific board, and at the US military's investment of first-person shooter games.

The Killing Game is a commitment to his life's paintings outdoors of Dark Alliance, and it's an exhibition of investigative journalism in its truest form.

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