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"Coal Country Killing revolves around the cold-blooded 1969 assassination of United Mineworkers of America ""reform candidate"" Jock Yablonski, and the murder of his wife and daughter in their Pennsylvania farmhouse. But driving the story are the extraordinary efforts of a special prosecutor and his ""army"" of investigators to bring the gunmen, the union boss who ordered the murders, and his henchmen who saw them carried out, to justice. Initially, three bumbling small-time criminals, dubbed ""The Hillbilly Hitmen,"" were arrested and charged. But they were the tip of the iceberg as the murders were directed by then-UMWA President ""Tough Tony"" Boyle as revenge for Yablonski running against him in the bitterly contested 1968 union election and to prevent his corruption from being exposed. Legendary Philadelphia homicide prosecutor Richard A. Sprague and his investigators spent nearly nine years doggedly working their way up the ladder of those responsible to the final showdown with Boyle. Written by former New York County Assistant District Attorney Robert K. Tanenbaum, a lifelong friend of Sprague's, and Steve Jackson, Coal Country Killing is a tour de force for those who love justice."

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Robert K. Tanenbaum is one of the country's most respected and successful trial lawyers. Previously, he was the homicide bureau chief for the New York District Attorney's Office and deputy chief counsel to the congressional committee investigations into the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He has taught advanced criminal procedure at the University of California, Berkeley, and conducts continuing legal education seminars in California, New York, and Pennsylvania. He is a New York Times bestselling author. Some of his works include Outrage, Betrayed, Counterplay, Fury, Hoax, and two true-crime books, The Piano Teacher: The True Story of a Psychotic Killer and Badge of the Assassin. New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist Steve Jackson has written fourteen nonfiction books in true crime, history, and biography genres; he has also written fourteen crime fiction thrillers for the Times bestselling Butch Karp series in collaboration with former New York assistant district attorney Robert K. Tanenbaum. Frank Block is an author turned full-time narrator who has recorded 470-plus audiobooks from his home studio nestled in the Canadian Rockies. Frank grew up in a small prairie town surrounded by colorful storytellers, which helped him develop his own unique craft of storytelling. He has also been called upon to be the public address announcer for countless hockey games over the years. Frank lives with his wife of more than thirty years in beautiful British Columbia and enjoys spending time with his three children and one grandchild.

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