Best American Crime Writing 2003 - Tapa dura

The second volume in a series of anthologies featuring the best crime journalism of the past year includes Maximillian Potter's study of "The Body Farm, a study of forensic specialist Murray Marks; Lawrence Wright's New Yorker portrait of FBI agent John O'Neill, who, after a decade of tracking Osama bin Laden, was killed at the World Trade Center; and others. Simultaneous.

ew anthology series―a year’s worth of the most powerful, the most startling, the smartest and most astute, in short, the best crime journalism.

Scouring hundreds of publications, guest editor Nicholas Pileggi, and series editors Otto Penzler and Thomas H. Cook have created a remarkable compilation of the best examples of the most current and vibrant of our literary traditions: crime reporting. Ranging in style from Mark Singer’s ribald “The Chicken Warriors,” an up-close look at the tawdry, wildly popular, illegal world of cock-fighting, to David McClintick’s harrowing “Fatal Bondage,” the tale of a grifter with an attraction to sado-masochistic sex and serial killing, this collection showcases the wide variety of writing in the field today.

Criminal behavior itself also falls into a spectrum, from the isolated and idiosyncratic misdeed, such as that documented in Skip Hollandsworth’s “The Killing of Alydar,” a