Paperback: Fatal Vision is the electrifying true story of Dr Jeffrey MacDonald, the handsome Princeton-educated physician convicted of savagely slaying his young pregnant wife and two small children in the early hours of 17 February 1970 - murders he vehemently denies committing.
Bestselling author Joe McGinniss chronicles every aspect of this horrifying and intricate crime and probes the life and psyche of the magnetic, all-American Jeffrey MacDonald, a golden boy who seemed destined to have it all.
The result is a penetration to the heart of darkness that enshrouded one of the most complex and longest-running criminal cases ever to capture the attention of the American public.
To this day, one provocative question still swirls around the murders: What would cause a seemingly happily married man to slaughter his family so viciously?
Fatal Vision (1983, 1985, 1989) is a haunting, stunningly suspenseful biographical work that bares the human soul at its most disturbing.
In 2012, McGinniss published Final Vision: The Last Words of Jeffrey MacDonald as a follow up to the bestseller Fatal Vision.
About the author: Joe McGinniss is an American author of non-fiction novels and true crime. He gained familiarity with journalism for the first time at the College of Holy Cross where he wrote for the school newspaper as well as the Chester Port Daily Item in the summer breaks. After his graduation, he worked for Worcester Telegram as a general assignment reporter. After a year, he became a sportswriter at the Philadelphia Bulletin and a year later, started working for its rival, Philadelphia Inquirer, as a columnist.
In 1986, McGinniss found the opportunity to write his first novel, The Selling of the President, which received a huge amount of positive feedback, such that it was in New York Times bestseller list overnight. Following his huge success with The Selling of the President, he decided to concentrate on writing books and subsequently quit his job at the Philadelphia Inquirer. His second and third books did not make waves compared to his first book. In 1980, however, he regained his popularity with his fourth book, Going To Extremes, where he wrote about his adventures in Alaska.
In 1979, McGinniss became recognized nationwide after he met with Jeffrey MacDonald, a former doctor in the US army who was accused of killing his wife and children in 1970. He worked on MacDonald's case for more than three years and published his first true crime book entitled Fatal Vision in 1983.
According to his biography, whether McGinniss is writing about a politician or a sociopath or even a soccer team, he feels compelled to search for the truth, no matter how elusive, behind the people and events he chronicles. His approach to his subject matters is always original and his books are never less than compulsively readable.
More information of the author and his works can be found on his website.
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