THE MAYERTHORPE STORY

General Store, Renfrew, ON, 2009, 1st.  ISBN 978-1-897508-42-8.  Trade soft cover, 287 pages including Acknowledgements, Index and About the Author.  Appears unread with very light cover wear; binding tight; flat signed by author on half-title page; promotional bookmark laid in.  ‘In March 2005, near Mayerthorpe, Alberta, a demented loner with a long criminal record ambushed and murdered four RCMP members.  Then he committed suicide.  Four years later, two young men were sentenced to lengthy prison terms as parties to those murders.  This book is based on interviews with many of the principals involved.  It unravels the details of all phases of this story, which is one of the most violent and complex tales in the annals of Canadian crime.’ (from rear wrap)