The Bluegrass Conspiracy: An Inside Story of Power, Greed, Drugs and Murder - Softcover

Denton, Sally

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0595196667 ISBN 13: 9780595196661

Publisher: Backinprint.Com, 2001

Synopsis

When Kentucky Blueblood Drew Thornton parachuted to his death in September 1985carrying thousands in cash and 150 pounds of cocainethe gruesome end of his startling life blew open a scandal that reached to the most secret circles of the U.S. government. The story of Thornton and The Company he served, and the lone heroic fight of State Policeman Ralph Ross against an international web of corruption is one of the most portentous tales of the 20th century.

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About the Author:

Award-winning investigative journalist Sally Denton has written for the New York Times and Washington Post. She is the co-author of The Money and The Power (Knopf, 2001), which the New York Times termed magisterial and the Los Angeles Times called one of the most important non-fiction books publishedin a half-century.

From Library Journal:

Denton, a former investigator for Jack Anderson, relates a sordid tale of corruption in Lexington, Kentucky. Among the major players were Governor John Y. Brown; his top political aides; former policeman and blueblood Andrew Thornton, the leader of an organization known as the "Company"; and other bluebloods, rich from money originally earned in horse-breeding and racing. Ralph Ross, a Kentucky state policeman who began a crusade to catch Thornton and his associates, was eventually forced out by being framed in an illegal wiretapping charge. Yet ultimately press coverage exposed the conspiracy. A labyrinthian tale, made complex by its mix of "good guys" and "bad guys," this will be of interest to libraries with large true crime sections. Recommended.
-Sandra K. Lindheimer, Middlesex Law Lib., Cambridge, Mass.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Backinprint.Com
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0595196667
• ISBN 13: 9780595196661
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 410