Books
*Named to The Strand Magazine's Top
10 Best Books of the Year list
When an elderly woman is found raped and brutally murdered, Karen Vail
heads west to team up with Inspector Lance Burden and Detective Roxxann
Dixon.
As they follow the killer’s trail in and around San Francisco, the
offender leaves behind clues that ultimately lead them to the most
unlikely of places, a mysterious island ripped from city lore whose
long-buried, decades-old secrets hold the key to their case: Alcatraz.
The Rock.
It’s a case that has more twists and turns than the famed Lombard
Street. The legendary Clive Cussler called
Inmate 1577 “a powerful
thriller, brilliantly conceived and written.”
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"Alan Jacobson has captured the desolate
solitude that distinguished Alcatraz as the toughest US
Penitentiary which housed the worst of the worst. Inmate 1577
is not only a riveting read with a Hitchcock-type ending I
never saw coming, but it possesses an authenticity that brought
back memories from my many years on The Rock."
-George DeVincenzi, Alcatraz
Correctional Officer (1950-7)
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“In my 27 years working at USP Leavenworth as a
Correctional Officer and Institution Historian, no other book has
painted the story of what it’s like to survive behind those 40
foot walls better than Inmate 1577. Hats off to Alan
Jacobson for his relentless research and desire to bring
credibility to an already fascinating story!"
- Kenneth M. LaMaster, Leavenworth
Correctional Officer (ret), Author, and Institution Historian
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“Inmate 1577 is another rippin'
good ‘Alan Jacobson read’! Jacobson researches his books like a
good newspaper reporter, and then pushes the envelope into
reality more thoroughly than the typical crime novel could ever
allow.”
- Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle
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