Bringing Adam Home: The Abduction That Changed America / Les Standiford, Joe Matthews

Les Standiford s account of the decades-long attempt to solve the murder of Adam Walsh is chilling, heartbreaking, hopeful, and as relentlessly suspenseful as anything I ve ever read. A triumph in every way.
Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River

The most significant missing child case since the Lindbergh s .A taut, compelling and often touching book about a long march to justice.
Scott Turow, author of Presumed Innocent

The abduction that changed America forever, the 1981 kidnapping and murder of six-year-old Adam Walsh son of John Walsh, host of the Fox TV series America s Most Wanted in Hollywood, Florida, was a crime that went unsolved for a quarter of a century. Bringing Adam Home by author Les Standiford is a harrowing account of the terrible crime and its dramatic consequences, the emotional story of a father and mother s efforts to seek justice and resolve the loss of their child, and a compelling portrait of Miami Beach Homicide Detective Joe Matthews, whose unwavering dedication brought the Adam Walsh case to its resolution.