A Turning Point: The Assassination of Charlie Kirk - Couverture souple

Cochran, R.M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798187160501

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

On September 10, 2025, one bullet changed American politics forever.

At 12:23 p.m., in front of thousands of students at Utah Valley University, conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot mid-sentence — and the resulting 33-hour manhunt, national reckoning, and courtroom battle would grip the country for months to come.

THE ASSASSINATION OF CHARLIE KIRK is a meticulously reported true crime investigation into the life, death, and legal aftermath of one of the most consequential political assassinations in modern American history. Drawing on court filings, sworn preliminary-hearing testimony, police records, and hundreds of hours of reporting, this book reconstructs — hour by hour — the two lives that collided that afternoon: Charlie Kirk, the Illinois-born founder of Turning Point USA who built a conservative youth empire from a garage office to an $85-million-a-year organization; and Tyler James Robinson, the quiet, high-achieving Utah engineering student accused of pulling the trigger.

Written in the immersive, character-driven tradition of David Grann, Jon Krakauer, Robert Kolker, and Patrick Radden Keefe, this is narrative nonfiction that refuses to flatten a complicated story into a partisan headline. It follows the evidence — DNA testimony, engraved ammunition, a rooftop "sniper pad," a smartphone confession — without ever losing sight of the human beings at the center of it: a grieving widow who stood before 100,000 mourners and publicly forgave the man accused of killing her husband; a small-town family blindsided by their son's arrest; and a nation forced, once again, to confront the question of political violence in America.

Inside this book you'll find:

A fully sourced, minute-by-minute reconstruction of the shooting and the 33-hour manhunt that followed
Parallel biographies of Charlie Kirk and Tyler Robinson, from childhood to the morning of September 10, 2025
The security failures, missed warnings, and rooftop gap that let the shooter escape detection
Courtroom drama from the five-day preliminary hearing, including DNA evidence, ballistics disputes, and defense challenges
The national aftermath — congressional resolutions, mass firings over social media posts, and a fractured country's response
Careful, source-by-source attribution that separates confirmed fact from allegation, consistent with the presumption of innocence

Balanced. Rigorously sourced. Impossible to put down.

For readers of Killers of the Flower Moon, Into Thin Air, Say Nothing, and Empire of Pain — this is the definitive account of the crime that shook a nation.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798187160501
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 114
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg