by Thomas Thompson
appears in Mystery & Crime, Fiction, and Nonfiction.
With compelling style and suspense this truecrime book reconstructs the bizarre, bloody journey of a mesmerizing but sinister young man named Charles Sobhraj. Sweeping back and forth over half the globe from the boulevards of Paris to the slopes of Mount Everest to the underbellies of Bangkok and Hong Kong Sobhraj left in his wake a trail of...
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appears in Mystery & Crime, Fiction, and Nonfiction.
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Consider Accidental Presidents by Jared Cohen. Recommended by 10 sources.
“Accidental Presidents offers eight narrative portraits of men who succeeded to the U.S. presidency without election, using anecdote-rich scenes and readable context to show how personality and circumstance interact with office power. It’s strongest as a set of self-contained stories that make succession stakes concrete for non-specialist readers; it does not prioritize dense archival argument or exhaustive methodology, so expect some interpretive generalizations and repeated themes across cases. Use it for fast historical orientation rather than scholarly deep-dives.”
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