Readers rave about Someone Has to Die Tonight

"Fascinatingly lurid ... insightful and well written. ... Greenhill has brought the light of excellent reporting and emotional insight to the brooding darkness that consumes fringe-dwellers at virtually any high school."

--Mike Clark, The Durango Herald (Durango, Colo.)

"Recommended reading. ... True crime in the strictest sense ... the most factual account possible of the events of that stormy April."

--Jay MacDonald, The News-Press (Fort Myers, Fla.)

“Greenhill, a big fan of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, did his hero proud ... the most detailed true crime you will read.”

--Sam Cook, The News-Press (Fort Myers, Fla.)

"Meticulously reported and carefully crafted, a major debut."

—Gregg Olsen, bestselling author of Abandoned Prayers

"Riveting and gut wrenching."

—Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, bestselling author of On Killing

"A searing look, by a true journalist, behind a sordid tale of murder and deception—a real page-turner."

—Investigative journalist M. William Phelps, author of Perfect Poison, Lethal Guardian, Every Move You Make and Sleep in Heavenly Peace

"An extraordinary book ... compelling ... it accumulates force as it rolls along and winds up flooring you with the sheer power of Greenhill’s reporting."

—Bob Norman, The Daily Pulp

The Lords of Chaos

  It was big news in Fort Myers, Fla., when an abandoned historic building was destroyed by vandals in a spectacular blast. Behind it lay the Lords of Chaos, a band of teenage misfits led by Kevin Foster, 18, a vicious hatemonger who idolized Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and was known as "God" to his five-man gang.

  The explosion was only one episode in a month-long crime spree that began with vandalism and theft, escalating into what a local sheriff later called "a vortex of bloodlust and arson." The rampage culminated in the brutal shotgun murder of high school band director Mark Schwebes, 32. Police busted the gang before they could unleash a planned racist mass murder at Disney World—but their leader wasn't done yet.

  Author Jim Greenhill conducted extensive interviews with Kevin Foster on Florida's Death Row. In an astounding development, Greenhill was solicited by the prisoner and his mother Ruby Foster to arrange the killings of three witnesses, leading to a new case against Foster in 2002. Someone Has to Die Tonight is the chilling inside account of a how a pack of teenage losers found a way to succeed—at murder ...

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When A Killer Calls

  In a two-hour Dateline NBC special, Keith Morrison looked at three friends about to graduate high school who went from young boys to killers in a matter of weeks. The Lords of Chaos and the leader of their gang, Kevin Foster, were eventually convicted for the murder of their teacher. But the story took another shocking turn when a newspaper reporter in Fort Myers, Fla.—Jim Greenhill—who was covering the Lords of Chaos ended up becoming part of Foster's plan for revenge.

  Produced by Shachar Bar-On, When A Killer Calls premiered Friday, March 15, 2002, at 8 p.m. EST. Check local listings for repeats. The special has also aired as Young Lords of Chaos on Dateline NBC and as This Weekend With Stone Phillips on MSNBC. The videotape is available via NBC.

  Visit Dateline NBC now.

Fire in the Sky: Colorado's Missionary Ridge Fire

  Someone Has to Die Tonight is Jim Greenhill's second book. His first was Fire in the Sky, an award-winning account of Colorado's 2002 Missionary Ridge Fire.

  The Colorado Independent Publishers association named Fire in the Sky best nonfiction essay book in 2003.

  The book was published by The Durango Herald, and the newspaper won the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Award for Public Service in 2003 for its coverage of the fire, for which Greenhill was the lead reporter.

  Lit by a spark but rooted in the region's worst drought on record, the summer of 2002's Missionary Ridge Fire transformed Southwest Colorado, burning 57 homes and 70,085 acres, leaving a bitter legacy of debris flows and showcasing La Plata County's greatest strength—community.

  Fire in the Sky documents the region's biggest fire in words, maps and dozens of color photographs by the staff of The Durango Herald. The book goes beyond the fire to look at its roots in drought. The effects of catastrophic wildfires don't end when the flames are out, and the book documents the floods and debris flows that follow a large scale fire. It looks at recovery efforts, and it discusses prevention.

  The 117 page volume uses text, 142 photographs (by Jerry McBride, Nancy Richmond and Dustin Bradford) and several maps (by Keith Alewine) to tell the story of the 39-day blaze.

  The book is in its second printing: The first sold out.

  This is a thorough account of a Western wildfire that contributes to general knowledge of the crisis facing our forests and the debate about how to fix it.

  To buy Fire in the Sky: Colorado's Missionary Ridge Fire, visit Amazon.com or The Durango Herald.

 
 
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Someone Has to Die Tonight book cover by Kensington Publishing Corp. Fire in the Sky: Colorado's Missionary Ridge Fire book cover by The Durango Herald.