Joseph Hilldorfer
Autor(a) de The Cyanide Canary
Obras por Joseph Hilldorfer
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Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Hilldorfer, Joseph
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Locais de residência
- Seattle, Washington, USA
- Educação
- Indiana University of Pennsylvania (MA ∙ Criminal Justice Administration)
University of Pittsburgh (JD) - Ocupações
- Special Agent - Federal Bureau of Investigation
Special Agent - EPA - Relações
- Dugoni, Robert (co-author)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 1
- Membros
- 68
- Popularidade
- #253,411
- Avaliação
- 4.1
- Críticas
- 11
- ISBN
- 9
On a crisp summer morning in Soda Springs, Idaho, twenty-year-old Scott Dominguez went to work for Allan Elias, the owner of Evergreen Resources, an enterprise Dominguez thought was in the business of producing fertilizer from mining waste. By eleven o'clock that morning he was fighting for his life, pulled unconscious from a cyanide-laced storage tank and not expected to live through the night. In Seattle, Special Agent Joseph Hilldorfer of the Environmental Protection Agency was given the job of finding out what happened to Dominguez and why. A former New York whiz kid and Arizona real estate and business mogul, Elias owned businesses that had polluted Idaho with hazardous waste for nearly a decade. Yet Elias never spent a single day in jail. Hilldorfer, his partner and the government trial team embarked on an epic courtroom battle that would stretch them to the limits.
What happened to Scott was horrible and sad. The owner deliberately would not provide safety equipment or training to his employees and had a history of his employees getting hurt. He was very smart and knew what to lie about, how to cover things up and how to bribe people to help him. Because he was so despicable, it made me keep reading to see if he would be found guilty. The ending dragged on a bit too long because of numerous legal proceedings that Elias initiated to delay a decision. Overall, an interesting and well-written story.… (mais)