Bibliograph

Zebra, the true account of the one hundred seventy-nine days of terror in San Fancisco, Clark Howard

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Zebra, the true account of the one hundred seventy-nine days of terror in San Fancisco, Clark Howard

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Zebra

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Clark Howard

Sub title

the true account of the one hundred seventy-nine days of terror in San Fancisco

Summary

Edgar Award Finalist: The true story of a string of brutal crimes committed in the name of religious fanaticism and racial hatred in 1970s San Francisco. In the early 1970s, a small band of well-dressed, clean-cut African American men began terrorizing the residents of San Francisco with guns and machetes. Their victims ranged from a teenage Salvation Army cadet to a middle-aged Jordanian grocer to an eighty-one-year-old janitor. The streets became deserted and tourism plunged. It took months before the culprits could be identified, with the help of an informer. They were members of a Black Muslim cult aspiring to earn the title "Death Angel" by slaughtering white victims. Combining history and dramatic recreations, this is the "repellent but riveting" in-depth story of a horrifying killing spree and the fanatical hatred that drove it-and the SFPD's desperate quest to take the culprits down (Kirkus Reviews). "[Clark Howard's] pounding narrative meticulously describes the so-called Zebra killings of 1973-74, when 23 white San Franciscans were murdered or maimed by a group of Black Muslim extremists. In the retelling, the cold jargon of police files leaps starkly to life." -Time

Target audience

adult

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