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Alone with her new husband on a tiny Pacific atoll, a young woman, combing the beach, finds an odd aluminum container washed up out of the lagoon, and beside it on the sand something glitters: a gold tooth in a scorched human skull.
The investigation that follows uncovers an extraordinarily complex and puzzling true crime story. Only Vincent Bugliosi, who recounted his successful prosecution of mass-murderer Charles Manson in Helter Skelter, the number-one best-selling true crime book of all time, was able to draw together the hundreds of conflicting details of the mystery and reconstruct what really happened when four people found hell in a tropical paradise.
Who has been killed, and who has committed murder? To find the truth, Bugliosi must probe deeply into the lives of two couples who could not have been more different. Seven years before, a hardy and self-reliant San Diego yachtsman had convinced his wife to embark on the dream of a lifetime. They would sail their boat, the Sea Wind, to deserted Palmyra Island, 1,000 miles due south of Hawaii, in order to pursue a Robinson Crusoe, away from the noise, dirt, and crime of civilization. At the same time, an embittered ex-con persuades his passionately loving and trusting girlfriend to sail to Palmyra and try to set their lives straight. The lines between these couples are soon drawn. Arrogance, envy, sexual obsession, and a grim struggle against nature are the volatile elements that erupt into a murder of almost incredible savagery.
For the first time, Bugliosi's millions of readers will see him in an unfamiliar role: the nation's most celebrated prosecutor defends someone charged with murder, and is challenged as much by his client's enigmatic personality as by the overwhelmingly damning evidence in the murder trial. Undaunted by scores of government witnesses, expert testimony, and a hostile judge, he responds with a defense that is classic of tenacious spadework and courtroom brilliance. Step by nerve-wracking step, Bugliosi reconstructs the crime for the jury. Only his ability to draw hidden inferences from the evidence can produce the stunning surprises of his final summation.
A brutal crime on an eerily beautiful Pacific island; an incomparable legal mind grappling with the nuances of the law and the fatal quirks of human nature; a courtroom drama whose outcome is in doubt down to the last rap of the gavel: And the Sea Will Tell weaves these threads into the most powerful and unfogettable true crime story of our time.
VINCENT T. BUGLIOSI recieved his law degree in 1964 from the UCLA Law School, where he was president of his graduating class. In his eight-year career as a prosecutor for the Los Angeles District Attorney's office, he tried coles to 1,000 felony and misdemeanor court and jury trials. Of 106 felony jury trials, he lost only one case. His most famous trial was the Charles Manson case, which became the basis of his best-selling book Helter Skelter. Both Helter Skelter and his other best-seller, Till Death Us Do Apart, won Edgar Allan Poe Awards for best true crime book of the year.
Mr. Bugliosi lives with his wife, Gail, in Los Angeles, where he is in private practice.
BRUCE B. HENDERSON, who has taught journalism at three California universiities, is the author of Empire of Deceit. He is currently at work on a book about the Gallo wine family of California. Mr. Henderson lives in Santa Rosa, California, with his wife and two children.
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