NEW YORK (AP) — After teaming up on a bestseller concerning the homicide of 4 College of Idaho college students, James Patterson and Vicky Ward are collaborating on a guide concerning the deadly capturing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and the hunt for his alleged killer, Luigi Mangione.
Little, Brown & Firm introduced the guide, which at present has no title or launch date. Patterson, one of many world’s bestselling novelists, and Ward, an investigative reporter who has labored at CNN and Esquire, plan to attract upon unique interviews, firsthand reporting and courtroom transcripts, amongst different sources.
Mangione has pleaded not responsible to a federal homicide cost for final December’s capturing of Thompson exterior a Manhattan lodge. Mangione, an Ivy League graduate from a distinguished Maryland actual property household, has since develop into an emblem of frustration with the well being care system.
“This is a story about the American Dream Gone Wrong. It’s also a story of one young man’s descent from Ivy League graduate to notorious accused killer to so-called political martyr,” Patterson mentioned in an announcement Wednesday.
Patterson’s and Ward’s “The Idaho Four,” revealed final month, rapidly turned a nationwide bestseller after Bryan Kohberger was sentenced July 23 to 4 consecutive life sentences with out parole for the deadly stabbings of scholars Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen, Ethan Chapin and Kaylee Goncalves in 2022.
