Kevin Davis


Selected Works

Magazine Writing
Lost at Sea
One man's obsession to row solo across the Atlantic
My Grandfather Shot John Dillinger
Kevin Davis' grandfather faces America's notorious bank robber
The Funny Money Caper
Counterfeiting gone wild
A Star is Porn
How a teen-age beauty queen became an American porn queen
Legacy of a Bullet
What it feels like to get shot
Reviews
Travel Stories
Australia's Red Desert
Journey to the Outback
That Other Grand Canyon
Hills and Thrills Deep Down in Mexico

Kevin Davis returns to Printer's Row Book Fair in Chicago June 7-8, 2008. Event details coming soon.
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"Pick it up. You won't be able to put it down"
- Chicago Tribune



Critical praise for Defending the Damned:

Defending the Damned is one of the most compelling books I have read in memory…It’s an astonishing book”- Rick Kogan WGN Radio, Chicago

"skillfully crafted "- Publishers Weekly

"an engrossing behind-the-scenes look"
- Chicago Sun-Times

"intimate and gripping" - Time Out Chicago

"outstanding...a fine and highly readable specimen of reporting combined with creative nonfiction." - South Florida Sun-Sentinel

"reads like a novel...an emotional roller coaster"- Chicago Reader

"an amazing book...riveting"- Chuck Mertz, WNUR Radio, Chicago


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More book signings and discussions scheduled for 2008!


Media Coverage of Defending the Damned:
Click Links Below


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Advance Praise For Defending the Damned:

"Stunningly real and poetically unromantic, Defending the Damned delivers us into a world of accused monsters and the complex souls who have sworn to stand by them. Davis’s subjects trust him – an astonishing result in a part of Chicago where trust disappears first – and he hears everything they say."

-Robert Kurson, New York Times bestselling author, Shadow Divers

"In his remarkable narrative, Kevin Davis uncovers the true heroes of the court system. This is one of those rare books that will change your mind about lawyers."

-Gerry Spence, lawyer and bestselling author

"With a true journalist’s reverence for truth and accuracy, Kevin Davis presents a raw and real version of the way our legal system works from a side that rarely comes into the light, but one our democracy cannot survive without."

- Jonathon King, Edgar Award-winning crime novelist

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Available at Bookstores Everywhere

From veteran journalist Kevin Davis comes the compelling and critically acclaimed true story of a group of battle-hardened lawyers fighting for those accused of the ultimate crime.

Davis takes you behind the scenes with an elite and fascinating group of public defenders who handle only one kind of case: murder. In this dark corner of the criminal justice system, nothing is ever as it seems.

Crime writer and best selling author Michael Connelly says:

"Kevin Davis gets so far inside the story that you would swear he was sitting right there at the defense table. With a journalist's keen eye for telling detail and dialogue, he has written a completely gripping and revealing assessment of what is not only going on in our courtrooms but in our society as well. Defending the Damned is a great and important book."

Defending the Damned - from Atria Books, a division of Simon & Schuster.


Speaking engagements


Kevin Davis is available to speak on a variety of criminal justice and legal issues, including capital punishment, the death penalty, criminal defense work, public defenders, wrongful convictions, crime, law enforcement and police work. Contact the author at the link below.



Kevin Davis
Author and Journalist

Photo by Anne Ryan
zrimages.com


Praise for
Kevin Davis'
first book,
The Wrong Man


"A masterpiece of reporting. No other story, fact or fiction, could be as gripping" - Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Edna Buchanan

The Wrong Man



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