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In the heart of the Swiss Alps stand the three majestic peaks of the Bernese Oberland, Europe's most famous mountain range. The highest, at 13,638 fee...
A classic from โthe dean of true crimeโ (The Washington Post)โnow with a new forewordโthis 1983 masterpiece tells the incredible story of a Sp...
Little Artie Shawcross bullied classmates, insulted teachers, started fires, tortured animals, and roved the woods of New York's hardscrabble North Co...
The True Story of a Ladies' Man and His Victims
In a tree-lined community near Seattle, young women were drawn to George Russel Jr.. They crowned him "cool", trusted him and took him to their hearts...
Missing Persons is a novel of contemporary suspense and horror, combining the shock and tension with gritty realism. A story of terror, loss and love ...
The mass murder of almost thirty young boys in Houston may well have been the most heinous crime of the century. How could such a series of murders go...
A True Story of Law and Disorder in the American West
The war between society and the antisocial personality has long been a subject of fascination, and few have explored it as thoroughly as award-winning...
Contains several autobiographical writing of serial killer Keith Hunter Jesperson....
Fourteen outspoken women describe college life in the tumultuous 1970โs. Experiencing their newfound freedom from the constraints of parents and hom...
The Riddle of Cassius Clay
Although perhaps the world's best known athlete, Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) was far more important as an American phenomenon of the 1960โs than as ...
a memoir
The Pitcher's Kid is Jack Olsen's memoir of the first 18 years of his life, years that formed his voice, his ear, and his passionate concern for the u...
Based on access to interviews, diaries, court records and the criminal himself, this is the story of serial killer Keith Hunter Jesperson, who wrote c...
The True Story of a Murderous Love
David loved Cindy and was loved in return. Or so he thought. The troubled young man clung to his new love and dreamed of their future together. So beg...
Fire 5 is a special roving unit, which comes to the aid of other fire companies that run into trouble all over the city. Its story is told by one of t...
A compilation of multiple case histories of single women of various ages who all work for the same company in New York City. He never reveals who the ...
Massy was big, over 8โ2โ, and still growing, the biggest man in pro basketball. No one thought it possible a man that big could move โ could run...
It is the extermination of the coyote โ a shrewd wily, solitary scavenger โ that serves as the central theme of Jack Olsenโs ragingly indignant,...
Jack Olsen, "the master of the true crime book,"* now gives us an incisive, probing look into the creation and development of the criminal mind, as we...
A young woman lies dead, strangled by a killer still prowling the sweltering run-down neighborhood. The young wife of a police lieutenant receives thr...
Joe Gere said he died on the afternoon his twelve-year-old daughter Brenda disappeared. It was left to Brenda's mother Elaine to sustain her stricken ...
Have You Seen My Son? is Jack Olsenโs powerful novel of child-snatching and a mother's obsessed hunt for her five-year-old son โ โa gripping, in...
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A classic! First time in digital format! This is the story of the most incredible mission of World War II, born in desperation and carried out with fo...
Award Winner! For twenty-five years, the trusted family doctor in a small Wyoming town had been raping and molesting the women and children who most r...
The Myth of Integration in American Sport
Jack Olsenโs blunt depiction of the shameful treatment of black athletes in the 1960โs. A view of the sport most Americans refused to see during a...
And on its surface, the Chappaquiddick Incident (as it has infamously become known) was a simple but tragic traffic accident. However, its political f...
The story of the Italian mountain villagers who lived on Monte Sole trying to survive the war and the horror that overtook them in September and Octob...
The Billygoats, champions of the National Conference of the NFL, are flying to New Orleans for the Super Bowl when their plane is hijacked by a famili...
The Autobiography of the 1970's American Honky-Tonk Scene
A poignant, first-hand expose of working and surviving in the dark underworld of seedy bars and strip clubs in the early 1970's. Jack Olsen's gritty d...
The Gypsy Murder Investigation
They were a notorious gypsy family that seeped into their victims' lives like a deadly cancer. And they couldn't be stopped-- until one courageous wom...
A Novel of Suspense
Missing Persons is Jack Olsen's novel of suspense and horror, combining the shock and tension of A Stranger Is Watching with the gritty realism of The...
Poison the Earth
The Tragedy and Triumph of Geronimo Pratt
With the epic scope of A Civil Action, Last Man Standing is an unforgettable chronicle of the twenty-seven-year struggle to break a conspiratorial abu...
A Serial Killer and His Victims: The True Story of Arthur J. Shawcross
A Ladies' Man and His Victims
The True Story of Law and Disorder in the American West
"In this book, the story of Claude Lafayette Dallas, Jr., Olsen takes on perhaps his most challenging assignment -- explicating the curious relationsh...
The Chilling True Story of the Nazi Massacre of 1,800 Italian Civilians
A genuine classic. Not to be missed. By one of the masters of nonfiction. Monte Sole - Mountain of the Sun - had the bad luck to lie on the main route...