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A scholarship student with a strange father and a mysterious background, Joe was socially shunned at the ultra-elite Harvard School in Los Angeles. By age twenty, however, Joe had made and lost $14 million on Chicago's commodities exchange. Back in L.A., he dazzled former classmates with his power and confidence, assembling them into BBC Consolidated of North America, Inc.--part corporate empire and part private social club. Joe convinced the children of L.A.'s most powerful families that all the wealth, status, and power in the world was theirs for the taking. They gave him their trust funds and a loyalty he transformed into cultish devotion. Hunt and the BBC became the talk of L.A.--not only for the meteoric rise that brought them control of more than $100 million in assets, but for the grisly murders connected to the group.
First Joe and another BBC member murdered the fabulous con man Ron Levin, trying to collect $1.5 million Levin owed them on a commodities deal. Then Joe allegedly masterminded a chilling scheme to kidnap a wealthy Iranian expatriate and torture him to death as they forced him to sign his assets over to his son, a BBC member. As the group's deadly momentum increased and its business dealings spun out of control, BBC members began to talk, and eventually Hunt and four others were arrested on two counts of murder. Joe was convicted of the death of Ron Levin and dispatched to Folsom Prison to serve a sentence of life without parole.
He was far from finished, however. From his jail cell Hunt mounted an exhaustive three-and-a-half year effort to combat the second murder charge, which resulted in the longest and most expensive trial in San Mateo County history.
Hunt is now back in Los Angeles preparing the defense case for a spring 1996 trial where his conviction in the Levin murder may be overturned; meanwhile, new evidence has come to light (revealed here for the first time) that may link Joe to a third murder--committed while he was released on bail.
From an award-winning journalist, this is a landmark true-crime book with a diabolical, but almost irresistibly seductive, genius at its center. The Price of Experience captures perfectly the greed and decadence that defined the 1980s, presenting a vision of Los Angeles that will burn forever in the minds of its readers.
"Sullivan's riveting tale is amazingly detailed and artfully presented.... You can hardly turn the pages fast enough. This is contemporary history brilliantly written."--Playboy
"The Price of Experience is a tour-de-force tear through the avarice of Los Angeles and Reagan's America. Sullivan's reportage is extraordinary, his narrative enthralling."--Rolling Stone
"Sullivan has done what every aspiring true crime writer hopes to do: He has crossed the line from titillation into cultural history."--Los Angeles Times
"Randall Sullivan...tells a story of sociopathic greed, pie-eyed gullibility and sheer incompetence of criminals and of their lawyers and prosecutors.... [T]he pages seem to turn themselves."--Boston Globe
"Randall's book will be the landmark true-crime book of this decade."--Cleveland Plain Dealer
"A 700-page expose that includes all the riveting details of this emblematic L.A. tale. A scary primer on the greed decade."--Buzz
Randall Sullivan has written for Rolling Stone, Esquire, and other magazines.
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