“A great true crime story…Readers will feel the effects of Phelps’ skill from beginning to end.” - Stephen Singular
Big and brash, Jeff Zack didn’t hide his rough lifestyle. And when he died, it was in plain sight: executed in the parking lot of a BJ’s Wholesale Club in Akron, Ohio, by a motorcycle-riding assassin dressed in black.
“Phelps uses a unique combination of investigative skills and narrative insight to give readers an exclusive, insider’s look.” - Anne Bremner
Jeff Zack’s murder stunned investigators - but then, so did his life. A long list of people might have had reasons to want Zack dead, including the loyal wife he had humiliated and the wealthy nightclub owner whose wife - a blond, hard-bodied beauty queen - he openly dated. But the truth would get even stranger…
“Phelps is a first-rate investigator.” - Dr. Michael M. Baden
In this shocking true story of adultery, mind games, lies, wealth and sexual liaisons in upscale Middle America, true-crime master M. William Phelps tells the astounding story of a man who loved the wrong woman - and was brutally murdered by a killer with the deadliest possible motive of all…
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"With the exception of the narrator mispronouncing Medina according to local usage (I grew up near there. Locally, it uses a long "i.") I enjoyed the book. Phelps did a nice job of laying out the scene, and building up to the verdicts.
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Debra (4 out of 5 stars)