Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI-花月杀手

作者：David Grann

书名：Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI《花月杀手：奥萨奇谋杀案和联邦调查局的诞生》

中文简介：Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI《花月杀手：奥萨奇谋杀案和联邦调查局的诞生》调查了1920年代初在俄克拉荷马州的奥色治县发生的一系列谋杀富有奥色治人的案件，当时在他们的土地下面发现了大量的石油储量。官方数据显示，被谋杀的富有的正统血统奥色治美洲原住民至少有20人，但本书作者格雷恩怀疑，可能还有数百人因为与石油有关而被杀害。该书指出牧场主威廉·黑尔是谋杀案背后的主谋，并提出了详细的证据。本案也成为了美国联邦调查局筹备建立的契机，是其参与调查的首个重大案件。

英文简介：In the 1920s the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. 

Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. Her relatives were shot and poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more and more members of the tribe began to die under mysterious circumstances.
In this last remnant of the Wild West - where oilmen like J. P. Getty made their fortunes and where desperadoes like Al Spencer, the "Phantom Terror", roamed - many of those who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered. As the death toll climbed to more than 24, the FBI took up the case. It was one of the organization's first major homicide investigations, and the bureau badly bungled the case. In desperation the young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to unravel the mystery. White put together an undercover team, including one of the only American Indian agents in the bureau. The agents infiltrated the region, struggling to adopt the latest techniques of detection. Together with the Osage they began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.

In Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann revisits a shocking series of crimes in which dozens of people were murdered in cold blood. Based on years of research and startling new evidence, the book is a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, as each step in the investigation reveals a series of sinister secrets and reversals. But more than that, it is a searing indictment of the callousness and prejudice toward American Indians that allowed the murderers to operate with impunity for so long. Killers of the Flower Moon is utterly compelling but also emotionally devastating.