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

Denton, Sally

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385262728 ISBN 13: 9780385262729

Publisher: Doubleday, 1990

Synopsis

Chronicles the life and death of Drew Thornton, an ex-narcotics officer and leader of a world drug orgranization with ties to Kentucky's state government and national law enforcement, and detective Ralph Ross's long time pursuit of Thornton

About this title

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: Doubleday
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0385262728
• ISBN 13: 9780385262729
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 334