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From the author of The Wager and The Lost City of Z, "one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today," comes a gripping, terrifying true-life murder mystery about one of the most horrific murders in American history.—National Book Award Finalist, New York Magazine; NOW A MARTIN SCORSESE PICTURE
"A startling whodunit...What more could readers of real-crime thrillers possibly want?—USA Today
"A brilliant piece of literary journalism with the urgency of a mystery" —The Globe of Boston
Osage Nation residents in Oklahoma were the richest people in the world per capita in the 1920s. Following the discovery of oil beneath their property, the Osage erected mansions, sent their kids to study in Europe, and enjoyed chauffeured car rides.
Next, one The Osage started to go extinct one by one. One of the main targets was the family of Mollie Burkhart, an Osage woman. She lost a relative to gunfire. Someone else contracted poisoning. And it was only the beginning, as an increasing number of Osage were dying under strange circumstances, and other individuals who ventured to look into the murders ended up dead too.
When the number of deaths increased, the recently established FBI took up the investigation, and Edgar Hoover, the agency's youthful director, j. looked to Tom White, a former Texas Ranger, for help in trying to solve the case. Along with the Osage, White assembled an undercover team that included a Native American operative who had entered the area and started revealing one of the scariest conspiracies in American history.
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