Tim Newark is the author of The Mafia at War (Zenith & Greenhill). He has been editor of Military Illustrated for 14 years and has been writer and consultant for six television documentary series for the History Channel and BBC Worldwide. He is also the author of Camouflage, accompanying the Imperial War Museum exhibition. You may contact him at: timn@fsmail.net.
On the night of November 29, 1988, near the impoverished Marlborough neighborhood in south Kansas City, an explosion at a construction site killed six of the city’s firefighters. It was a clear case of arson, and five people from Marlborough were duly convicted of the crime. But for veteran crime writer and crusading editor J. Patrick O’Connor, the facts—or a lack of them—didn’t add up. Justice on Fire is OConnor’s detailed account of the terrible explosion that led to the firefighters’ deaths and the terrible injustice that followed. Also available from Amazon
