{"product_id":"blind-vengeance-the-roy-moody-mail-bomb-murders-9780820341019","title":"Blind Vengeance: The Roy Moody Mail Bomb Murders","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Ray Jenkins\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Murder - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJust days before Christmas 1989, bombs delivered through the U.S. mail exploded in two southern states, taking the lives of a federal judge in Alabama and a civil rights attorney in Georgia. The same week, two more deadly packages were intercepted en route to a federal courthouse and an office of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. \u003ci\u003eBlind Vengeance\u003c\/i\u003e is the riveting account of the frantic federal, state, and local investigations that ensued, eventually resulting in the arrest and conviction of Walter Leroy Moody Jr., a small-time con man who blamed society for his failures. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn-depth portraits of the victims and their killer show three men representative of the changing South: the privileged white man, Judge Robert Smith Vance of Birmingham, who saw the necessity of political changes; the black lawyer and city alderman, Robert Robinson of Savannah, who prevailed in a segregated society to become a respected professional figure; and the embittered lifelong criminal Roy Moody, who led a brooding, solitary life on the edges of society. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRay Jenkins's research is based on new information from interviews, record searches, and unprecedented access to Moody's psychiatric profile. The result is a chilling exploration of the mind of a killer blinded by a desire for revenge.","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46866704367767,"sku":"9780820341019","price":3918.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780820341019.webp?v=1769983074","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/blind-vengeance-the-roy-moody-mail-bomb-murders-9780820341019","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}