The
Devil's Harvest: A Ruthless Killer, a Terrorized Community, and the Search for
Justice in California's
by Jessica Garrison
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"Meticulously researched and tightly
woven, The Devil's Harvest is an important story because it tells us that if
[this] can happen in one place, then it can happen in any place. And that's
damn scary."
--Michael Connelly, New York Times
bestselling author of The Closers, The Lincoln Lawyer, and The Night Fire
The Devil's Harvest: A Ruthless Killer, a Terrorized Community, and the Search for Justice in California's
On the
surface, fifty-eight-year-old Jose Martinez didn't seem evil or even that
remarkable--just a regular neighbor, good with cars and devoted to his family.
But in between taking his children to Disneyland and visiting his mom, Martinez
was also one of the most skilled professional killers police had ever seen.
He
tracked one victim to one of the wealthiest corners of America, a horse ranch
in Santa Barbara, and shot him dead in the morning sunlight, setting off a
decades-long manhunt. He shot another man, a farmworker, right in front of his
young wife as they drove to work in the fields. The widow would wait decades
for justice. Those were murders for hire. Others he killed for vengeance.
How did
Martinez manage to evade law enforcement for so long with little more than a
slap on the wrist? Because he understood a dark truth about the criminal
justice system: if you kill the "right people"--people who are poor,
who aren't white, and who don't have anyone to speak up for them--you can get
away with it.
Melding
the pacing and suspense of a true crime thriller with the rigor of top-notch
investigative journalism, The Devil's Harvest follows award-winning reporter
Jessica Garrison's relentless search for the truth as she traces the life of
this assassin, the cops who were always a few steps behind him, and the families
of his many victims.
Drawing
upon decades of case files, interrogation transcripts, on-the-ground reporting,
and Martinez's chilling handwritten journals, The Devil's Harvest uses a
gripping and often shocking narrative to dig into one of the most important
moral questions haunting our politically divided nation today: Why do some
deaths--and some lives--matter more than others?
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