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Gone: Catastrophe in Paradise
A mass of European and American tourists descend on an idyllic tropical island for the holiday of a lifetime. Within hours, hundreds are dead. What happened? This is the true story of one of history's most tragic and shocking disasters, in which aviation, terrorism, a sudden change in weather and plain old bad luck made for a ruinous mix. Discover the mind-boggling facts of this catastrophe in this compelling, action-packed and haunting tale of the human condition that will have you turning the pages to the very end. This is the large print edition of Gone, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.
134 pages, Paperback
Published May 4, 2021
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O.J. Modjeska
13 books10 followers"Truth is stranger than fiction ... and this author offers horrifying insight..."
I am a true crime author who wears many other hats, including erstwhile historian and criminologist and avid consumer of books and TV series ... find out what I've been bingeing on in the ScreamingForStreaming blog at http://www.estoire.co/
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OJ Modjeska is a criminologist, historian and author. She graduated from the University of Sydney with a PhD in Modern American History in 2004, and received her Graduate Diploma in Criminology from Sydney Law School in 2015. In 2015 she was awarded the JH McClemens Memorial Prize by Sydney Law School for her scholarship in criminology. Before pursuing a writing career she worked for many years as a legal writer and editor. She writes books of narrative non-fiction true crime and disaster analysis. Her books are suspenseful narratives which draw on her insights and expertise into history, criminal behavior and psychology.
OJ signed with Next Chapter Publishing in 2018. She continues to publish minor works under her own imprint, Estoire, named after the French for "a narrative of past events, presented as true, whose authenticity is attested by an authority".
I am a true crime author who wears many other hats, including erstwhile historian and criminologist and avid consumer of books and TV series ... find out what I've been bingeing on in the ScreamingForStreaming blog at http://www.estoire.co/
More about:
OJ Modjeska is a criminologist, historian and author. She graduated from the University of Sydney with a PhD in Modern American History in 2004, and received her Graduate Diploma in Criminology from Sydney Law School in 2015. In 2015 she was awarded the JH McClemens Memorial Prize by Sydney Law School for her scholarship in criminology. Before pursuing a writing career she worked for many years as a legal writer and editor. She writes books of narrative non-fiction true crime and disaster analysis. Her books are suspenseful narratives which draw on her insights and expertise into history, criminal behavior and psychology.
OJ signed with Next Chapter Publishing in 2018. She continues to publish minor works under her own imprint, Estoire, named after the French for "a narrative of past events, presented as true, whose authenticity is attested by an authority".
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