{"title":"Patrick Kendrick","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"edisons-last-breath-paperback","title":"Edison's Last Breath - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1931. As Thomas Edison was dying, he left test tubes of what he believed would be his final breath, until it was. His intent was to leave his \"last breath,\" for his protégé, friend, and confidant, Henry Ford. But forty-two tubes were lost after he died. Then, year after year, one of the tubes of Edison's breath would arrive at Ford's Florida winter home where Ford would open it and breathe in the breath of his dead friend. He thought it brought him strength and wisdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, in 1940, a tube arrives at Ford's home, but a man steals it and breathes in its contents, then immediately falls over dead. The man is a rabbi. The package the tube arrived in has the return address of one of the world's most popular entertainers, Josephine Baker, who lives in France.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRetired Scotland Yard Inspector, Emmet MacWain just wants to live in Key West, fish, drink some rum, and soak in the beauty of the island, away from the fog-shrouded, dark, and murderous streets of London. But, once again, he is coerced by the shady F.B.I. agent, John Serey, into an investigation that will have him clash with one of America's titans of industry as well as international spies who would see the world crumble under the boots of the Nazi regime. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, MacWain must find the answer to a deadly puzzle that leads him to the jungles of Brazil, where their Macumba, or voodoo, practitioners have taken over Fordlandia, Ford's failed car factory, and MacWain is presented with more questions that, inevitably, land him in war-torn France where a global battle is raging out of control like a firestorm and threatening the entire world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Patrick Kendrick, bestselling author of American Ripper: The Enigma of America's Serial Killer Cop, and the Award-Winning Novel, Papa's Problem. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51374363607263,"sku":"9781604522037","price":26.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Yn8Spx5Ggo9781604522037.webp?v=1789178825"},{"product_id":"american-ripper-the-enigma-of-americas-serial-killer-cop-paperback","title":"American Ripper: The Enigma Of America's Serial Killer Cop - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAmerican Ripper\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e is the true story of Gerard John Schaefer, a Florida Law Enforcement Officer who was a prolific serial killer in the late 1960's early 1970's. The decade that was thought to be filled with \"Love, Peace and Happiness,\" became a new dark age, breeding more serial killers than any other time in U.S. history, including Charles Manson, the Zodiac Killer, the Son of Sam, John Wayne Gacy and Ted Bundy, who was held in the same prison as Schaefer and whom he both idolized and resented for the recognition his crimes brought him; a recognition Schaefer never received.\u003c\/p\u003eThis book chronicles Schaefer's life, education, his career as a cop, and his path to become a sadistic murderer. Based on empirical, extensive research that includes reviews of the case's investigation and subsequent trial, interviews with families of victims, numerous police and attorneys involved with the case, forensic doctors, and the killer himself, the author attempts to discern how Schaefer became the antithesis of what a lawman should be. Schaefer's metamorphosis can never be rationally explained, but reviews of the case's transcripts, the killer's psychiatric evaluations, and the author's own experience with Schaefer help paint a picture of an unfettered mind that fed on its own darkness.The case also reveals an incredible and inborn weakness of then-law enforcement, a lack of shared information, and an inherent and global disbelief that monsters, such as serial killers were so abundant. Much has changed since the so-called \"hippie generation,\" but a time that should have been filled with hope became an era that was infested with enigmas such as Gerard Schaefer.Patrick Kendrick is the best-selling author of Extended Family and the award-winning Papa's Problem.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51382646669535,"sku":"9781604521634","price":25.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/YY8KiYHxoW9781604521634.webp?v=1789290475"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/patrick-kendrick.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}