Twisted Triangle: A Famous Crime Writer, a Lesbian Love Affair, and the FBI Husbands Violent Revenge - Hardcover

Rother, Caitlin; Hess, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0787995851 ISBN 13: 9780787995850

Publisher: Jossey Bass, 2008

Synopsis

Praise for Twisted Triangle

"This book will haunt you. It will move you to look at some of the harsh realities of life in a new way. A powerful story–and masterfully written."
–Aphrodite Jones

best–selling author, All She Wanted and Cruel Sacrifice

"A harrowing tale of one woman′s struggle to maintain a balance between being a mother, an FBI agent, and dealing with a corrupt husband also an FBI agent. A must–read."
–Joseph D. Pistone

aka Donnie Brasco

"Hitchcock wishes he′d dreamed it up. Capote wishes he′d written it. Rother′s mesmerizing narrative chronicles a wife′s heroic struggle against great odds to survive her psychopathic husband′s elaborate scheme to make her murder the perfect crime. This spellbinding tale offers an added treat–it′s true."
–Marcus Stern

Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author, The Wrong Stuff: The Extraordinary Saga of Randy "Duke" Cunningham, the Most Corrupt Congressman Ever Caught

"This in–depth account brought back memories of a most bizarre case, proving once again that the truth can be stranger than fiction."
–Paul B. Ebert

Commonwealth′s attorney, County of Prince William, Virginia

About this title

About the Author

Caitlin Rother, a Pulitzer Prize–nominated investigative journalist, is the author of Poisoned Love, the true story of the Kristin Rossum murder case, and the thriller Naked Addiction. Rother has written for Cosmopolitan, the Los Angeles Times, the San Diego Union–Tribune, the Los Angeles Daily News, the Washington Post and the Boston Globe.

John Hess, a retired FBI supervisory agent and Quantico instructor of 27 years, is the author of Interviewing and Interrogation for Law Enforcement and co–author of Writing for Law Enforcement.

From the Back Cover

Praise for Twisted Triangle

"This book will haunt you. It will move you to look at some of the harsh realities of life in a new way. A powerful story—and masterfully written."
—Aphrodite Jones, best–selling author, All She Wanted and Cruel Sacrifice

"A harrowing tale of one woman′s struggle to maintain a balance between being a mother, an FBI agent, and dealing with a corrupt husband also an FBI agent. A must–read."
—Joseph D. Pistone, aka Donnie Brasco

"Hitchcock wishes he′d dreamed it up. Capote wishes he′d written it. Rother′s mesmerizing narrative chronicles a wife′s heroic struggle against great odds to survive her psychopathic husband′s elaborate scheme to make her murder the perfect crime. This spellbinding tale offers an added treat—it′s true."
—Marcus Stern, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author, The Wrong Stuff: The Extraordinary Saga of Randy "Duke" Cunningham, the Most Corrupt Congressman Ever Caught

"This in–depth account brought back memories of a most bizarre case, proving once again that the truth can be stranger than fiction."
—Paul B. Ebert, Commonwealth′s attorney, County of Prince William, Virginia

From the Inside Flap

Twisted Triangle

Twisted Triangle tells the compelling true story of Margo Bennett, a married FBI agent whose jealous, vengeful husband, Gene Bennett, a former undercover FBI agent, kidnapped and attempted to murder her after she had?a secret love affair with best–selling crime novelist Patricia Cornwell.

This series of bizarre events caused a sensation when it made national news a decade ago, but the whole incredible story has never before been told. Only now have Margo Bennett, her friends, and family granted investigative journalist Caitlin Rother exclusive access to personal interviews, previously sealed court records, diaries, letters, and other formerly confidential material. The book details the crazy dynamics of Margo and Gene Bennett′s marriage and family, the rise and fall of their FBI careers, and Margo′s clandestine lesbian affair with celebrity author Patricia Cornwell. Stranger than fiction, this story describes the makings of Gene′s complex plan, his insanity defense, and the trial that ultimately vindicated Margo and sent Gene to prison, where he remains today.

Margo Bennett lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she is a captain of the University of California, Berkeley, campus police department. Gene Bennett is incarcerated in Virginia, not far from the Washington DC area, where the events of this fascinating true crime narrative took place.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey Bass
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0787995851
• ISBN 13: 9780787995850
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304