Randall Sullivan
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[b]UPDATED WITH NEW MATERIAL FROM THE AUTHOR In The Curse of Oak Island , longtime Rolling Stone contributing editor and journalist Randall Sullivan explored the curious history of Oak Island and the generations of people who tried and failed to unlock its secrets. Drawing on his exclusive access to Marty and Rick Lagina, stars of the History Channel’s television show The Curse of Oak Island , Sullivan delivers an up to the minute chronicle of their ongoing search for the truth.[/b] In 1795, a teenager discovered a mysterious circular depression in the ground on Oak Island, in Nova Scotia, Canada, and ignited rumors of buried treasure. Early excavators uncovered a clay-lined shaft containing layers of soil interspersed with wooden platforms, but when they reached a depth of ninety feet, water poured into the shaft and made further digging impossible. Since then the mystery of Oak Island’s “Money Pit” has enthralled generations of treasure hunters, including a Boston insurance salesman whose obsession ruined him; young Franklin Delano Roosevelt; and film star Errol Flynn. Perplexing discoveries have ignited explorers’ imaginations: a flat stone inscribed in code; a flood tunnel draining from a man-made beach; a torn scrap of parchment; stone markers forming a huge cross. Swaths of the island were bulldozed looking for answers; excavation attempts have claimed two lives. Theories abound as to what’s hidden on Oak Island. Could it be pirates’ treasure or Marie Antoinette’s lost jewels? Or perhaps the Holy Grail or proof of the identity of the true author of Shakespeare’s plays? In this rich, fascinating account, Sullivan takes readers along as the Lagina brothers mount the most comprehensive effort yet to crack the mystery, and chronicles the incredible history of the “curse” of Oak Island, where for two centuries dreams of buried treasure have led intrepid treasure hunters to sacrifice everything.
Dead Wrong
Since both the Notorious B.I.G.’s and Tupac Shakur’s deaths, there has been endless fascination with their murders. LAbyrinth has been adapted into a feature film that will be released in fall 2018, directed by Brad Furman and starring Johnny Depp and Forest Whitaker. A movie tie-in edition will be released in September. LAbyrinth was published to great acclaim from the Boston Globe , Washington Post , Entertainment Weekly , and others. Dead Wrong will include the Notorious BIG Estate’s wrongful death suit against the LAPD and City of Los Angeles, which was dismissed without prejudice when the LAPD claimed to be reopening the case (after which nothing has happened). “Without prejudice” means the case can be refiled at any time. Randall Sullivan will also examine the Los Angeles Times ’s reporting on the case, which repeatedly omitted evidence in favor of the most likely theory of who murdered Biggie (a hit ordered by Suge Knight and executed by LAPD officer David Mack and a man named Amir Muhammed), and at one point outed a confidential informant whose evidence supported that theory. The journalist who wrote most of that coverage was later fired, ostensibly as part of routine layoffs. Sullivan will debunk the self-published book Murder Rap by former LAPD detective Greg Kading, who also misdirects readers against the Mack-Muhammed theory of the murder. The Kading book was the basis for the recent USA Network limited television series Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious BIG. Additionally, Sullivan will cover the death of Russell Poole, the detective who sought and failed to break the LAPD’s code of silence about the Mack-Muhammed theory, resulting eventually in losing his employment and succumbing to depression and alcoholism.
LAbyrinth
LA, 1997. The city is restless and simmering with tension. In two seemingly unconnected attacks, rap superstars Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. are brutally murdered. Across town, a black off-duty cop is gunned down by a white undercover cop in broad daylight.
Award-winning journalist Randall Sullivan's searing investigation uncovers a mass of connections to Suge Knight and his infamous label Death Row Records. But as Sullivan follows his leads into the darkest corners of the city, he finds the case thwarted at every turn by the LAPD itself – and realises that he is caught in a web of police corruption that spreads wider than he could have ever imagined.
