{"product_id":"american-taboo-a-murder-in-the-peace-corps-9780060096878","title":"American Taboo: A Murder in the Peace Corps","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1975, a new group of Peace Corps volunteers landed on the island nation of Tonga. Among them was Deborah Gardner -- a beautiful twenty-three-year-old who, in the following year, would be stabbed twenty-two times and left for dead inside her hut.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnother volunteer turned himself in to the Tongan police, and many of the other Americans were sure he had committed the crime. But with the aid of the State Department, he returned home a free man. Although the story was kept quiet in the United States, Deb Gardner's death and the outlandish aftermath took on legendary proportions in Tonga.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow journalist Philip Weiss \"shines daylight on the facts of this ugly case with the fervor of an avenging angel\" (\u003cem\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e), exposing a gripping tale of love, violence, and clashing ideals. With bravura reporting and vivid, novelistic prose, Weiss transforms a Polynesian legend into a singular artifact of American history and a profoundly moving human story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWeiss, Philip:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003ePhilip Weiss has been a contributing writer to the\u003cem\u003e New York Times Magazine \u003c\/em\u003eand a contributing editor to \u003cem\u003eEsquire, Harper's Magazine, \u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eNew York Observer.\u003c\/em\u003e He lives in upstate New York.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50459883143442,"sku":"9780060096878","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e4f3b18f-394a-489d-940d-cd91921ea7f2.jpg?v=1730011544","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/american-taboo-a-murder-in-the-peace-corps-9780060096878","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}