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Author(s): Philip Weiss
ISBN(s): 9780060096878, 006009687X
Edition: Reprint
File Details: PDF, 1.22 MB
Year: 2005
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 006009687X‎ 

ISBN 13: 978-0060096878

Author: Philip Weiss

In 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.

Another 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.

Now journalist Philip Weiss “shines daylight on the facts of this ugly case with the fervor of an avenging angel” (Chicago Tribune), 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.

Table of contents:

 

  1. A Legend of the South Seas
  2. Tonga 16
  3. Swearing In
  4. The Tonga Club
  5. Steilacoom
  6. The Perfect Volunteer
  7. Stranded
  8. The Dance at the Dateline
  9. Prayers in the Bedford Truck
  10. The Search
  11. Tapu
  12. “Help Me Tell the Untold Story of the Murder of Deborah Gardner”
  13. Next of Kin
  14. The Sendoff
  15. A Vision in the Cathedral
  16. Funerals
  17. The Jail
  18. Extraterritoriality
  19. “A Flick of the Tip”
  20. Once Out, All Out
  21. Wayne’s Appeal
  22. At Sea
  23. Tonga in the Dock
  24. Tevolo
  25. The Verdict
  26. Privy Council
  27. Never-Never Land
  28. The Earthquake
  29. American Taboo
  30. Condolence Calls
  31. The End of the Legend
  32. Behind the Bricks
  33. Getting Away with It

Additional Sections

  • A Note on Sources
  • Acknowledgments

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