Green emphasizes that writing down the histories of a culture that has existed for so long underground with the fear of violence and detection is now crucial to queer survival. His awareness that many of these histories-histories that vary across cities and states-often live only in the heads of the elders who survive to tell them. The first book on the subject of The Last Call Killer, Green seems aware that in telling the story of a predator, he is also telling the story of a marginalized community at the height of a number of issues related to violence, health, and visibility. And at the same time, it paints a portrait of his victims and a vibrant community navigating threat and resilience.Green’s writing seems exceedingly conscious of the way queer history works and has worked for decades. This gripping true-crime narrative tells the story of the Last Call Killer and the decades-long chase to find him.
Yet because of the sexuality of his victims, the skyhigh murder rates, and the AIDS epidemic, his murders have been almost entirely forgotten. The Last Call Killer preyed upon gay men in New York in the '80s and '90s and had all the hallmarks of the most notorious serial killers. But that's what he is, and tonight, he has his sights set on a gray haired man. Not at all what you think a serial killer looks like. The man strikes the piano player as forgettable. The Townhouse Bar, midtown, July 1992: The piano player seems to know every song ever written, the crowd belts out the lyrics to their favorites, and a man standing nearby is drinking a Scotch and water. The gripping true story, told here for the first time, of the Last Call Killer and the gay community of New York City that he preyed upon. David Grann, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon Green has shed light on those whose lives for too long have been forgotten, and rescued an important part of American history." It is an investigation filled with twists and turns, but this is much more than a compelling true crime story.
"In this astonishing and powerful work of nonfiction, Green meticulously reports on a series of baffling and brutal crimes targeting gay men. **WINNER OF THE EDGAR® AWARD FOR BEST FACT CRIME**Ī "terrific, harrowing, true-crime account of an elusive serial killer who preyed upon gay men in the 1990s."
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