Items related to Blood Echoes

Cook, Thomas H. Blood Echoes ISBN 13: 9780525933991

Blood Echoes - Hardcover

 
9780525933991: Blood Echoes
View all copies of this ISBN edition:
 
 
Recounts the prolonged agony of the Alday family as they are continually asked to testify in court about a 1973 crime during which six family members were brutally killed by escaped convicts. By the author of Early Graves. 15,000 first printing.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author:

THOMAS H. COOK held several jobs as teacher and book reviewer before he began writing full-time. Many of his novels have been nominated for the Edgar and other prestigious awards. He won the Edgar for The Chatham School Affair.

From Kirkus Reviews:
Alternately horrifying and deeply moving, this fast-paced true-crime report by Cook (Early Graves, The City When It Rains- -both 1990, etc.) focuses on the murder of six members of the Alday family of rural Seminole County, Georgia, on May 14, 1973. The slaughter was the work of three brothers--Carl and Billy Isaacs and Wayne Coleman--and of a slow-witted black man, George Dungee. The quartet were on the lam from Baltimore, where Carl, Wayne, and George had recently escaped from prison. Billy, the youngest, was along for the excitement. Spotting the trailer home of Jerry and Mary Alday, the four men, short on cash, pulled into the yard and began rifling the place. In the midst of the burglary, Jerry and his father arrived home and were promptly shot to death. A while later, other family members arrived: each was murdered. The last to appear was Mary, who was killed after being raped repeatedly. Then the murderers took off in her car and began roaming the South, staging holdups and stealing cars. Eventually arrested in West Virginia, they were returned to Georgia to stand trial. Billy turned state's evidence, and the three others were given death penalties--but the sentences were appealed, with two overturned. Today, a totally unrepentant Carl is apparently still manipulating the system and issuing statements such as, ``What did [the victims] ever do? No one would have ever paid any attention to them, if I hadn't come along and killed them.'' In Cook's capable hands, the cumulative effect is shattering. And when the author writes of the sufferings of surviving Alday family members--the loss of their farm, or their reliving of the tragic events with each new judicial maneuver--his words prove sensitive and resonant. An immensely involving work that shifts from the repellent to the heartwarming and back and asks important questions about the clash between criminals' and victims' rights. (Eight page photo insert--not seen.) -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

  • PublisherDutton
  • Publication date1992
  • ISBN 10 0525933999
  • ISBN 13 9780525933991
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages256
  • Rating

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9780451403490: Blood Echoes: The Infamous Alday Mass Murder and Its Aftermath

Featured Edition

ISBN 10:  ISBN 13:  9780451403490
Publisher: Onyx, 1993
Softcover

Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace

Stock Image

Cook, Thomas H.
Published by Dutton (1992)
ISBN 10: 0525933999 ISBN 13: 9780525933991
New Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
GoldBooks
(Austin, TX, U.S.A.)

Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed. Seller Inventory # think0525933999

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 18.47
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 4.25
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Cook, Thomas H.
Published by Dutton (1992)
ISBN 10: 0525933999 ISBN 13: 9780525933991
New Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
GoldenWavesOfBooks
(Fayetteville, TX, U.S.A.)

Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. New. Fast Shipping and good customer service. Seller Inventory # Holz_New_0525933999

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 24.85
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 4.00
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Cook, Thomas H.
Published by Dutton (1992)
ISBN 10: 0525933999 ISBN 13: 9780525933991
New Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
Wizard Books
(Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.)

Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. New. Seller Inventory # Wizard0525933999

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 25.39
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 3.50
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Cook, Thomas H.
Published by Brand: Dutton Adult (1992)
ISBN 10: 0525933999 ISBN 13: 9780525933991
New Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
LibraryMercantile
(Humble, TX, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: new. Seller Inventory # newMercantile_0525933999

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 25.90
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 3.00
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Cook, Thomas H.
Published by Brand: Dutton Adult (1992)
ISBN 10: 0525933999 ISBN 13: 9780525933991
New Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
Front Cover Books
(Denver, CO, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: new. Seller Inventory # FrontCover0525933999

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 30.05
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 4.30
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Thomas H. Cook
Published by Dutton Adult (1992)
ISBN 10: 0525933999 ISBN 13: 9780525933991
New Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
Ergodebooks
(Houston, TX, U.S.A.)

Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Seller Inventory # DADAX0525933999

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 37.63
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Cook, Thomas H.
Published by Dutton (1992)
ISBN 10: 0525933999 ISBN 13: 9780525933991
New Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
GoldenDragon
(Houston, TX, U.S.A.)

Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Buy for Great customer experience. Seller Inventory # GoldenDragon0525933999

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 40.69
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 3.25
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Cook, Thomas H.
Published by Dutton (1992)
ISBN 10: 0525933999 ISBN 13: 9780525933991
New Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
Book Deals
(Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: New. New! This book is in the same immaculate condition as when it was published. Seller Inventory # 353-0525933999-new

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 63.97
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Cook, Thomas H.
Published by Dutton (1992)
ISBN 10: 0525933999 ISBN 13: 9780525933991
New Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
The Book Spot
(Sioux Falls, SD, U.S.A.)

Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Seller Inventory # Abebooks152579

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 64.00
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Cook, Thomas H.
Published by Dutton (1992)
ISBN 10: 0525933999 ISBN 13: 9780525933991
New Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
BennettBooksLtd
(LOS ANGELES, CA, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1.05. Seller Inventory # Q-0525933999

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 95.16
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 4.91
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds

There are more copies of this book

View all search results for this book