The Polk conspiracy

By Kati Marton

Subjects: Case studies, Meurtre, True Crime, Victimes d'homicide, Journalistes, Politique et gouvernement, Murder victims, Journalists, Murder, Cas, Études de, Politics and government, Mord, New York Times reviewed

Description: On May 16, 1948, the body of CBS correspondent George Polk was found floating in Greece's Salonika Bay, where he had been stationed to report on a bloody civil war. The murder was allegedly solved, but Kati Marton has conctructed a vivid, convincing account of who really ordered the assasination of George Polk - and the motive behind it. This is the story of a peculiarly American hero whose blunt honesty and idealism proved insufficient aids in traversing the trecherous grounds of Cold War politics.