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Cold Country Killing, a culture, a union, and the murders that changed it all revolves

around the cold-blooded 1969 assassination of United Mineworkers of America reform candidate,

Jacques Leblansky, and the murder of his wife and daughter in their Pennsylvania farmhouse.

But driving this story are the extraordinary efforts of a tenacious special prosecutor,

and his army and investigators to bring the gunmen, the union boss who ordered the murders,

and his henchmen who saw them carried out to justice.

Initially, three bumbling small-time criminals dubbed the Hillbilly Hitman were arrested

and charged, but they were the tip of the iceberg as the murders were directed by then

United Mineworkers Association President Tuf Tony Boyle, as revenge for Jacques Leblansky

running against him in the bitterly contested 1968 union election, and to prevent his corruption

from being exposed.

Up against the tight-lipped culture of Appalachia, a cold country, legendary Philadelphia homicide

prosecutor Richard A. Sprig, and his investigators spent nearly nine years doggedly working their

way up the ladder of those responsible to the final showdown with Boyle, written by New

York Times bestselling authors former New York County assistant district attorney Robert

K. Tannenbaum, a lifelong friend of Sprigs, and Steve Jackson.

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