The Summer Wind: Thomas Capano and the Murder of Anne Marie Fahey

by Anastasia, George

• ISBN13: 9780061031007
• ISBN10: 0061031003
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-16
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

<B><center><P>He was a charismatic-and married-prosecutor.</B></center></P> <P>Tom Capano was a golden boy, one of the richest and most influential men in Delaware state politics. Anne Marie Fahey was a pretty, vivacious-and also needy and anorexic-young secretary to the governor. For two years, she was the perfect foil for Capano's obsessive manipulation, until she finally broke it off-and he killed her.</P><B><center><P>She was his charing yet insecure mistress.</P></B></center><P>In this riveting, meticulously researched story, award-winning crime reporter george Anastasia re-creates teh Capano-Fahey affair, the murder, and its aftermath. through their own intimate words, taken from Fahey's diaries and the couple's e-mail correspondence, <I>The Summer Wind</I> brings to life their bizarre relatonship, from the first flirtation to the final cold-blooded act of arrogance when Capano dumped an ice chest containing Anne Marie's lifeless body into the Atlantic Ocean.</P><B><center><P>She thought his charm was to die for.</B></center></P> <P>Anastasia also follows the story into the courtroom and behind prison walls as Capano struggled to save himself, and into the minds of the men and women who united in a brilliant campaign to bring a killer to justice, including a joint state-federal sting operation that helpd bring capano down.</P> <B><center><P> She was right.</B></center></P>