David Robb is the author of Unsung Villains: History’s Forgotten Monsters, Murderers and Maniacs. He has written for The New York Times, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. He was the chief labor, legal and investigative reporter at Daily Variety and The Hollywood Reporter for 20 years. He is also the author of Operation Hollywood: How the Pentagon Shapes and Censors the Movies (Prometheus Books, 2004) and The Gumshoe and the Shrink: The Secret History of the 1960 Kennedy/Nixon Election (Santa Monica Press, 2012).
On the night of November 29, 1988, near the impoverished Marlborough neighborhood in south Kansas City, an explosion at a construction site killed six of the city’s firefighters. It was a clear case of arson, and five people from Marlborough were duly convicted of the crime. But for veteran crime writer and crusading editor J. Patrick O’Connor, the facts—or a lack of them—didn’t add up. Justice on Fire is OConnor’s detailed account of the terrible explosion that led to the firefighters’ deaths and the terrible injustice that followed. Also available from Amazon
