Tailspin, Bernard F. Conners, British American, $26.95 (we have a few signed copies).
Although
Tailspin is being pushed as the final solution to the Sam Sheppard case (and it is a believable one) I
enjoyed it more as a character study of Major James Call, its existential anti-hero, a man without nerves, equally at home
in country club or wilderness camp, a war hero who turned to crime to fuel his adrenaline habit. But Conners also shows the
price of Call's egotism, both to himself and society. Well written, with a central character no fiction writer could come
up with,
Tailspin is the True Crime book of the year.
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