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Jake Adelstein - Code Blue, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

Code Blue

The Serial Killer, the Cover-Up, and a Two-Generation Quest for Justice

Av Jake Adelstein

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In the summer of 1992, patients at a veterans’ hospital in mid-Missouri began dying under suspicious circumstances — but the institution meant to protect them was busy protecting itself. Three decades on, Jake Adelstein comes home to his native Missouri to take up the case his father never stopped investigating.Strange things were happening at the Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans’ Hospital. Patients who should have gone home were never making it out. And in Ward 4 East, the loudspeakers kept crackling with an announcement that told the staff someone was about to die: Code Blue.When staff raised concerns, administrators found a suspect — a nurse. They acted quickly. But they didn’t call the police. Instead, they went after the people trying to tell the truth. The nurse moved on to new jobs. Death followed.This is the story of serial killings in a college town, the cover-up, and the devastating ripple effects of a crime that went unpunished. It is a story of grieving families, courtroom battles. law enforcement agencies that fumbled the case, and whistleblowers who should have been heroes but were treated like criminals. At the centre of it all: the hospital pathologist who started the investigation and asked his son to finish it.For the first time in thirty years, Jake Adelstein — the author of Tokyo Vice — has returned to his hometown of Columbia, Missouri. Together with his daughter, Beni, and Amy Yoshida-Plambeck, they turn up the heat on a very cold case in a quest for real justice.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2027-02-11
  • Mått: 129 x 198 x 20 mm
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 272
  • Förlag: Scribe Publications
  • ISBN: 9781917189859
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Jake Adelstein has been an investigative journalist in Japan since 1993, writing in Japanese and English. He authored Tokyo Vice (now an HBO series), The Last Yakuza (2023), Tokyo Noir (2024), The Devil Takes Bitcoin (2025), and Code Blue (2027). He co-hosted the award-winning podcast The Evaporated: Gone with the Gods. A recognised expert on Japan’s organised crime, he’s reported for The Daily Beast, Los Angeles Times, Tempura, and VICE. He is also a low-ranking Zen Buddhist priest, trying hard to be kinder and occasionally exorcising hungry ghosts. Adelstein frequently appears as a commentator on Japanese crime and culture, working as a writer and consultant. Jake resides in Tokyo, Japan.Amy Yoshida-Plambeck is a journalist, editor, and producer, with two award-winning podcasts under her belt: The Evaporated: Gone with the Gods and Witnessed: Night Shift. She currently resides in Tokyo.

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‘Code Blue does more than recount a criminal investigation whose many twists and turns we would rather not reveal. Beneath the surface, the author also paints a portrait of his native United States, exposing everything that is wrong with a democracy preparing to celebrate their 250th anniversary in July. This is familiar territory for Adelstein. Much like David Simon with his exceptional television series The Wire, which uses the war on drugs to dissect America’s legal, political, and social systems, Adelstein consistently wields his razor-sharp pen to dismantle the conventional wisdom and myths that surround a society. This time, it is the American Dream and the notion of “the world’s greatest democracy” that end up on the slab.’

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