Shake the Devil Off: A True Story of the Murder that Rocked New Orleans
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (555 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1250035228 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-29 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
After covering the murder-suicide for Penthouse in 2007, Brown moved to New Orleans, and his detailed reconstruction of both Bowen's life and the city's deterioration make heartbreaking reading. Granted what Brown says was an unfair general (under honorable conditions) discharge, Bowen returned to New Orleans in late 2004, where, abandoned by Lana, he began a turbulent relationship with Hall, culminating in Bowen methodically dismembering and cooking her remains. 14 b&w photos. A high school dropout, New Orleans bartender and a father at age 18, Bowen was determined to improve himself and do well by his child and
In the weeks before Hurricane Katrina made landfall, he met Addie Hall, a pretty and high-spirited bartender. A charismatic young soldier meets a tragic end in this moving and mesmerizing account of the war in Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, and no-safety-net AmericaZackery Bowen was thrust into two of America's largest recent debacles. How had this popular, handsome father of two done this horrible thing? Journalist Ethan Brown moved from New York City to the French Quarter in order to investigate this question. Among the newsworthy elements in the book is Brown's discovery that this tragedylike so many otherscould have been avoided if the military had simply not, in the words of Paul Sullivan, executive director of Veterans for Common Sense, "absolutely and completely failed this soldier." Shake the Devil Off is a mesmerizing tribute to these lives lost.. It was, according to NOPD veterans, one of the most gruesome crimes in the city's history. He was one of the first soldiers to encounter the fledgling insurgency in Iraq. Their improvised, hard-partying endurance during and after the storm had news outlets around the world featuring the couple as the personification of what so many want to
Five Stars Very engrossing but extremely sad story. L. Moffitt said Thank you Ethan. I just want to thank Ethan again for the excellent way he handled Zack's story. I am Zack' Mom and I wasn't going to read this book as I thought it would be too painful, but I kept looking at the cover and then the pictures and then a few lines and I was hooked. It was like I got to see inside the 10 years I lost with Zack. When I'd talk to him, everything would be "I'm fine Mom!" Evidently, not. It has given me a closure at last to the last three years of not really knowing what happened to my son. He was a wonderful . "Sympathy for the Devil?" according to Donna. Is it possible to humanize a murderer to excess? Throughout this rambling account of Zack Bowen's life and death, I couldn't "shake" the image of Addie Hall's body parts simmering on a kitchen stove. While Zack's life is examined in rich and sympathetic detail, Addie is a "firecracker" who we only come to know through her explosions. Even her face is obscured on the book's cover.As other reviewers have pointed out, the linkage of Bowen's obscene act with PTSD is forced, almost like padding. Maybe Bowen chose the milita