Jeremy Duda: Murder in the Fourth Estate

Award-winning journalist Jeremy Duda visits the Phoenix store to present his latest. Award-winning journalist Jeremy Duda visits the Phoenix store to present his latest. ABOUT THE BOOK “They finally got me... Emprise...the Mafia...John Adamson. Find him.” Investigative reporter Don Bolles used his final words to name the people he believed had set the car bomb that had left him dying in a hotel parking lot in midtown Phoenix. In his fourteen years as one of Arizona's top reporters, Bolles took on the Mafia, land fraud kingpins, and corrupt politicians. And someone wanted him silenced. Murder in the Fourth Estate is the first definitive account of the murder and investigation of Don Bolles, the most infamous assassination of a journalist in American history. The murder broke an unwritten rule in the world of organized crime: journalists were off-limits. Starting with the June 2, 1976 assassination, this book follows the murder investigation through innumerable twists and turns—mishaps, mistrials, overturned convictions, conspiracy theories, and political intrigue. Based on nearly a decade of research into the Bolles case, this book includes evidence from the attorney general’s voluminous case file and interviews with key participants. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jeremy Duda is an award-winning journalist for Axios in Phoenix who’s spent the bulk of his 22-year career covering Arizona politics and government. He’s worked for the Arizona Mirror, Arizona Capitol Times, Daily Herald of Provo, Utah, and the Hobbs (New Mexico) News-Sun, and he’s been a contributor for the Economist, History Today and the Washington Post, where he contributed to a Pulitzer Prize-winning project on the Jan. 6 attack. He’s also the author of If This Be Treason: The American Rogues and Rebels Who Walked the Line Between Dissent and Betrayal (2016).