Gary M. Lavergne is the author of several works of true crime and current affairs nonfiction, including A Sniper in the Tower: The Charles Whitman Murders (Bantam) and Bad Boy: The Murderous Life of Kenneth Allen McDuff (St. Martin’s). His most recent book is Before Brown: Heman Mariot Sweatt, Thurgood Marshall, and the Long Road to Justice. He lives with his family in Cedar Park, Texas.

REVIEWS

for A Sniper in the Tower

“A thorough and fascinating examination of one of the most shocking crimes of the century.”

—Vincent Bugliosi, author of Helter Skelter

for Bad Boy

“Gary Lavergne's portrait of unalloyed evil -- and of the criminal justice system's failure to protect us from it -- is a sobering reminder of any free society's vulnerability to the bad seeds scattered amongst the good. A fine, dismaying work.”

—Robert Draper, author of Dead Certain