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...heirs straight out of Dynasty: wastrels, alcoholics and eccentrics who became entangled in sordid divorces and murky crimes. Patrick's uncle Smith Reynolds, a daredevil pilot, died of a gunshot wound and was deemed a suicide. The author suggests that his uncle's second wife actually did the deed. Patrick Reynolds rarely saw his father, R.J. (Dick) Reynolds Jr., a chain smoker and heavy drinker who married four times and died at 58 of emphysema...
Michael Fay, head of the New Zealand team, decided to strike back. Citing a provision in the deed of gift, which sets out guidelines for the competition, he challenged the U.S. to a one-on-one rematch. San Diego had not planned on a defense until 1991. But Justice Carmen Ciparick of the New York Supreme Court, which oversees the deed, upheld New Zealand's rogue challenge...
...expected, the U.S. catamaran blew New Zealand's monohull out of the water in September 1988. Fay then filed suit, charging that the U.S. had violated the deed of gift's requirements for a "fair match." Enter the New York Yacht Club -- the Cup's custodian for the first 132 years of its existence -- which filed an affidavit supporting New Zealand's charge...
Then, most astonishing of all, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, 88, spiritual ruler of fundamentalist, revolutionary Iran, announces that the author must be killed for the sin of insulting Islam, the Prophet and the holy Koran, and for good measure exonerates any Muslim who manages to perpetrate this deed and promises him the rewards of martyrdom. And not only the author, but anyone else involved in the publication of the book. A day later, another Iranian cleric announces that a bounty has been placed on the author's head: $2.6 million if the avenger is an Iranian, $1 million...
...characters from Louisiana to be in New Jersey on the night of the murder. The case was broken when one of these gents was persuaded, in exchange for promises of a light sentence, to testify that his friend had pulled the trigger and that Marshall had paid for the deed. Readers looking for simple justice will not find it here. Although Marshall was convicted and is currently appealing a death sentence, the accused killer was acquitted and his cooperative accomplice placed in the Witness Protection Program...