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A review by majortomwaits
Killers of the Flower Moon: Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
4.0
One of the better written works of non-fiction of this kind. While it does fall under the true crime category, I can't help but feel as if it doesn't fit with most of the works that are in that category. Because this is so horrid and so systemic that it feels wrong to place it next to a work of some charlatan who is obsessed with serial killers.
This is a work where victims come first and it is just heartbreaking to read as it unfolds. Even more heartbreaking is when a close comes and you realize that there's still about a hundred pages left. Because it didn't end with just a couple of guys being imprisoned. And that's what got to me the most.
Grann did fantastic work with this one, perhaps it is a tad too focused on the FBI, though I understand, it is partly about the founding of it. Regardless, the new evidence part was really well done and it is praise worthy that Grann went there himself and tried to see what he could find from the descendants and the local library.
This is a work where victims come first and it is just heartbreaking to read as it unfolds. Even more heartbreaking is when a close comes and you realize that there's still about a hundred pages left. Because it didn't end with just a couple of guys being imprisoned. And that's what got to me the most.
Grann did fantastic work with this one, perhaps it is a tad too focused on the FBI, though I understand, it is partly about the founding of it. Regardless, the new evidence part was really well done and it is praise worthy that Grann went there himself and tried to see what he could find from the descendants and the local library.