Killers of the Flower Moon (Young Reader Version) - David Grann

Written by David Grann
Read by Kyla Garcia, Jon Lindstrom, Joe Ochman
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

Publisher: Books on Tape
Release date: November 16, 2021
Duration: 07:06:52

A young reader edition of the New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist about one of history’s most ruthless and shocking crimes, the Reign of Terror against the Osage people.

In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.
Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off.

As the death toll surpassed more than twenty-four Osage, the newly created F.B.I. took up the case, in what became one of the organization’s first major homicide investigations. An undercover team, including one of the only Native American agents in the bureau, infiltrated the region, struggling to adopt the latest modern techniques of detection to bring an end to the deadly crime spree. Together with the Osage they began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.

In this youngification of the adult bestseller, critically acclaimed author David Grann revisits the gripping investigation into the shocking crimes against the Osage people. It is a searing indictment of the callousness and prejudice toward Native Americans that allowed the murderers to continue for so long and provides essential information for young readers about a shameful period in U.S. history.

This audiobook will cause listeners to rethink everything they know about oil, the settlement of the West, and our nation’s treatment of Native Americans. The work is so rich that it takes three people to perform it. This gripping nonfiction makes a story of history. Kyla Garcia narrates the first section, imbuing facts with feelings while describing the “Osage Reign of Terror,” a chilling series of murders and outrageous white oppression of oil-rich Osage Native Americans in Oklahoma in the 1920s. In the second section, narrator Jon Lindstrom’s deep and gravelly voice fits the perspective of John White, an investigator in the early days of the FBI. He captures White’s frustration as he struggles to unearth culpability for many of the Osage murders and the corruption behind them. Joe Ochman narrates the final third, the present-day viewpoint of a journalist who unearths further criminal connections with the benefit of technology as he struggles to capture the past. S.W. Winner of AudioFile Earphones