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We Die in the Dark: The Hunt for Serial Killers in the Secret City Beneath Las Vegas
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Expected 25 Mar 27In this riveting true crime thriller, bestselling author and journalist Johann Hari hunts serial killers in the sinister underworld of Las Vegas.
Hidden in the tunnels beneath the Las Vegas Strip is a secret city – one that the homeless have built, and the police are afraid to enter. When Johann Hari first ventured into this underground world in 2011, he discovered something people kept disappearing, or turning up dead.
Suspicions arose that a serial killer was preying on the homeless population. But when a suspect was jailed and the murders continued, a darker truth started to emerge. Las Vegas appeared to have become a breeding ground for serial killers targeting some of the city's most vulnerable people, and nobody knew why.
That mystery would become a fifteen-year obsession for Hari. Gaining unprecedented access to police files, prosecution and defence lawyers, and the families of the missing, his search for answers draws him into a chain of bizarre and tragic events. The kidnapping of a thirteen-year-old girl. The election of a mayor who befriended one of the worst murderers in American history. The rise of a cult-like Korean church predicting the end of the world in a nuclear holocaust. And, in a chilling final confrontation, he comes face to face with the killers themselves.
An astonishing page-turner, We Die in the Dark reveals a world that has never been seen before - and the shocking death of the American dream.
Hidden in the tunnels beneath the Las Vegas Strip is a secret city – one that the homeless have built, and the police are afraid to enter. When Johann Hari first ventured into this underground world in 2011, he discovered something people kept disappearing, or turning up dead.
Suspicions arose that a serial killer was preying on the homeless population. But when a suspect was jailed and the murders continued, a darker truth started to emerge. Las Vegas appeared to have become a breeding ground for serial killers targeting some of the city's most vulnerable people, and nobody knew why.
That mystery would become a fifteen-year obsession for Hari. Gaining unprecedented access to police files, prosecution and defence lawyers, and the families of the missing, his search for answers draws him into a chain of bizarre and tragic events. The kidnapping of a thirteen-year-old girl. The election of a mayor who befriended one of the worst murderers in American history. The rise of a cult-like Korean church predicting the end of the world in a nuclear holocaust. And, in a chilling final confrontation, he comes face to face with the killers themselves.
An astonishing page-turner, We Die in the Dark reveals a world that has never been seen before - and the shocking death of the American dream.
- GenresTrue Crime
Kindle Edition
Expected publication March 25, 2027
About the author
Johann Hari
32 books3,527 followersJohann Hari is an award-winning British journalist and playwright. He was a columnist for The Independent and the Huffington Post, and has won awards for his war reporting. His work has also appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, The Nation, Le Monde, El Mundo, the Melbourne Age, El Pais, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Irish Times, The Guardian, Ha'aretz, the Times Literary Supplement, Attitude (Britain's main gay magazine), the New Statesman and a wide range of other international newspapers and magazines.
Hari describes himself as a "European social democrat", who believes that markets are "an essential tool to generate wealth" but must be matched by strong democratic governments and strong trade unions or they become "disastrous". He appears regularly as an arts critic on the BBC Two programme Newsnight Review, and he is a book critic for Slate. He has been named by the Daily Telegraph as one of the most influential people on the left in Britain, and by the Dutch magazine Winq as one of the twenty most influential gay people in the world.
After two scandals in 2011 involving plagiarism and malicious editing of Wikipedia pages, Hari was forced to return the prestigious Orwell prize he had won in 2008, and lost his position at The Independent.
Hari describes himself as a "European social democrat", who believes that markets are "an essential tool to generate wealth" but must be matched by strong democratic governments and strong trade unions or they become "disastrous". He appears regularly as an arts critic on the BBC Two programme Newsnight Review, and he is a book critic for Slate. He has been named by the Daily Telegraph as one of the most influential people on the left in Britain, and by the Dutch magazine Winq as one of the twenty most influential gay people in the world.
After two scandals in 2011 involving plagiarism and malicious editing of Wikipedia pages, Hari was forced to return the prestigious Orwell prize he had won in 2008, and lost his position at The Independent.
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I have never been more fascinated with a true crime book in my life until this one. I had no idea about the literal underground side of Las Vegas and I was so impressed with the reporting and the great detail from this author. He was able to get such an intense perspective for the reader that it makes it hard to take a break from reading. I learned SO much and have a new outlook on everything. I also enjoyed the guidance on how to help others. I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
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