Books by Victoria Bruce and Complete Book Reviews

Inspector Oldfield and the Black Hand Society: America’s Original Gangsters and the U.S. Postal Detective Who Brought Them to Justice
Inspector Oldfield and the Black Hand Society: America’s Original Gangsters and the U.S. Postal Detective Who Brought Them to Justice
William Oldfield and Victoria Bruce. Touchstone, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-1-5011-7120-8
Drawing on a treasure trove of family records, Oldfield and coauthor Bruce (No Apparent Danger) use the remarkable life of the author’s great-grandfather, Frank Oldfield, to illuminate the little-known role of federal postal inspectors in federal...
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No Apparent Danger: The True Story of a Volcano's Deadly Power
No Apparent Danger: The True Story of a Volcano's Deadly Power
Victoria Bruce, Author HarperCollins $26 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-019920-3
The fight currently raging within the volcanological community, sketched by the discrepancies between Bruce's work and Stanley Williams and Fen Montaigne's Surviving Galeras (reviewed below), concerns what is known about predicting eruptions, and...
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Sellout: How Washington Gave Away America’s Technological Soul
Sellout: How Washington Gave Away America’s Technological Soul, and One Man’s Fight to Bring It Home
Victoria Bruce. Bloomsbury, $28 (304p) ISBN 978-1-63286-258-7
Time to reclaim America’s technological base—and military capabilities—from the Chinese, argues this anguished saga of industrial decline. Journalist Bruce (Hostage Nation) profiles brash entrepreneur Jim Kennedy as he lobbies Washington to bolster...
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Hostage Nation: Colombia's Guerrilla Army and the Failed War on Drugs
Hostage Nation: Colombia's Guerrilla Army and the Failed War on Drugs
Victoria Bruce, Karin Hayes, with Jorge Enrique Botero, Knopf, $26.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-307-27115-0
In this thrilling account of the origins and workings of the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), Bruce (No Apparent Reason), Hayes, and Botero, all codirectors and coproducers of the documentary Held Hostage in Colombia, marshal years of...
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