Killers Of The Flower Moon David Grann by David Grann 9780593377345, 0593377346 instant download after payment.

**The** New York Times **bestseller and National Book Award finalist** Killers of the Flower Moon **is now adapted for young readers.**
This book is an essential resource for young readers to learn about the Reign of Terror against the Osage people--one of history's most ruthless and shocking crimes.
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma, thanks to the oil that was discovered beneath their land. Then, one by one, the Osage began to die under mysterious circumstances, and anyone who tried to investigate met the same end.
As the death toll surpassed more than twenty-four Osage, the newly created Bureau of Investigation, which became the FBI, took up the case, one of the organization's first major homicide investigations. An undercover team, including one of the only Native American agents in the bureau, infiltrated the region, struggling to adopt the latest modern techniques of detection. Working with the Osage, they began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.
In this adaptation of the adult bestseller, David Grann revisits his gripping investigation into the shocking crimes against the Osage people. The book is a searing indictment of the callousness and prejudice toward Native Americans that allowed the murderers to occur for so long.
### Review
"An **eye-opening, challenging, and thoroughly sourced** saga that will open the door to many necessary conversations." - *Booklist* , starred review
"A young readers treatment that is just as **imperative and enthralling** as its parent text."-- *School Library Journal* , starred review
"There is no shortage of **jaw-dropping** information in *Killers of the Flower Moon*. Grann entices younger readers with **a mystery worthy of fiction** and grips them with a thriller."-- *Shelf Awareness* , starred review
"This **compelling page-turner** highlights criminal exploitation of Osage people and the work of the modern FBI." - *Kirkus Reviews
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### About the Author
David Grann is a staff writer at the *New Yorker* and the bestselling author of *The Lost City of Z* , which was chosen as one of the best books of the year by the *New York Times* , the *Washington Post* , and other publications and has been translated into more than twenty-five languages. He is also the author of *The Devil and Sherlock Holmes* and *Killers of the Flower Moon*. His work has garnered several honors for outstanding journalism, including a George Polk Award.
### Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
IN APRIL, MILLIONS OF TINY FLOWERS SPREAD OVER THE blackjack hills and vast prairies in the Osage territory of Okla­homa. There are Johnny-jump-ups and spring beauties and little bluets. The Osage writer John Joseph Mathews said that the gal­axy of petals makes it look as if the “gods had left confetti.” In May, when coyotes howl beneath an unnervingly large moon, taller plants, such as spiderworts and black-eyed Susans, begin to creep over the tinier blooms, stealing their light and water. The necks of the smaller flowers break and their petals flutter away, and before long they are buried underground. This is why the Osage Indians refer to May as the time of the flower-killing moon.