Barbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough

1 on the New York Times nonfiction best-seller list for 39 weeks. In 1990, with Journal colleague John Heylar, he co-authored Barbarians at the Gate (HarperCollins), which was No. Prior to joining Vanity Fair, Burrough was an investigative reporter at The Wall Street Journal.

His profile subjects have included Sumner Redstone, Larry Ellison, Mike Ovitz, and Ivan Boesky. He has reported on a wide range of topics, including the events that led to the war in Iraq, the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, and the Anthony Pellicano case. This title contains mature themes, including physical and sexual violence, that some listeners may find unsettling.īryan Burrough joined Vanity Fair in August 1992 and has been a special correspondent for the magazine since January 1995. It is also a story of Texas politics and power that led the good citizens of the town of Temple to enable a demon who was their worst nightmare.

What had led the local media to ignore his early rapes? Why had the local Presbyterian Church tried to shield him from prison? Why had local law enforcement been unable to solve and prosecute his murders as they continued?īurrough is widely admired as a master storyteller, and this chilling tale raises important questions of whether serial killers can be recognized before they kill or rehabilitated after they do. Yet the town had denied all early signs of the radical evil that was growing within Corwin. One of his high school classmates, Danny Corwin, was a vicious serial killer who had raped and mutilated six women, murdering three of them. Best-selling author Bryan Burrough (Barbarians at the Gate, Public Enemies, Big Rich) recently made a shocking discovery: The small town of Temple, Texas, where he had grown up, had harbored a dark secret.

Barbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough