Fatal Vision

Name: Fatal Vision
Brand: Simon & Schuster Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.67 (18 reviews)
Author: Joe McGinniss
ISBN: 9781508257233

Author: Joe McGinniss, Corey Brill

Narrator: Fred Sanders

Unabridged: 27 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Published: 03/20/2018

Categories: Nonfiction, True Crime, Murder, Historical

Synopsis

Fatal Vision is the electrifying true story of Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald, the handsome, Princeton-educated physician convicted of savagely slaying his young pregnant wife and two small children, murders he vehemently denies committing.

About Joe McGinniss

Joe McGinniss (1942–2014) was an American journalist, nonfiction writer, and novelist. He first came to prominence with the bestselling The Selling of the President, which described the marketing of then-presidential candidate Richard Nixon. It spent more than six months on bestseller lists. He is popularly known for his trilogy of bestselling true crime books—Fatal Vision, Blind Faith, and Cruel Doubt—which were adapted into several TV miniseries and movies. Over the course of forty years, McGinniss published twelve books.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Luvtoread (Trying to catch up) on November 09, 2019

One of the best true crime stories ever! Joe McGinniss could not have written this book any better. I have followed this case ever since I read this book. If you don't know of this case,you truly want to believe this husband, father, surgeon and career military captain innocent of these crimes. The......more

Goodreads review by Book Clubbed on February 01, 2022

That MFer did that shit!!!......more

Goodreads review by Flora on February 20, 2008

A true-crime classic. Definitely read it in tandem with Janet Malcolm's brilliant, brilliant, brilliant "The Journalist and the Murderer," which analyzes the lawsuit of prisoner Jeffrey MacDonald (convicted of murdering his pregnant wife and two children in 1970) against author Joe McGinniss, whom h......more

Goodreads review by Shaun on February 01, 2015

I thought this was phenomenal from a "true crime" perspective. Though long, I felt the overall organization of the book worked quite well. I also appreciated the sections told in Jeffrey's MacDonald's own words. Having first heard about these murders via the very popular mini-series while growing up,......more

Goodreads review by Tanja on April 24, 2014

Rating 5* out of 5. I have read 952 pages with attention, with horror, with fascination and not once been bored. That is a pretty incredible achievement, on the part of the author. This is the most engrossing read I've read in a long time and by far the best book I have read so far this year. On Feb......more