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ISBN 978-0-14-312369-9 $18.00 ($19.00 CAN)
True Crime 6 x 9 544 pp. Rights: E30 b/w and 2-color
illustrations throughout Pub history: The Penguin Press
hc 978-1-59420-343-5 On sale: 8/27/2013
SuGGeSTeD ORDeR
“ The literary equivalent
of one of [Morris’s]
movies. . . . A Wilderness of
Error upends nearly everything you
think you know about these killings
and their aftermath.”
—Dwight Garner, The New York Times
“ Both great and
important . . . a beautifully
written book.” —Michael Shaub, NPR
ClassiC Penguin
26 SePTeMBeR
Academy Award–winning filmmaker
Errol Morris examines one of the most
notorious and mysterious murder trials
of the twentieth century
new york times bestseller
A Wilderness of Error
The Trials of Jeffrey MacDonald
Errol Morris
In this profoundly original meditation on truth and the justice
system, Errol Morris—a former private detective and director
of The Thin Blue Line—delves deeply into the infamous Jeffrey
MacDonald murder case. MacDonald, whose pregnant wife
and two young daughters were brutally murdered in 1970, was
convicted of the killings in 1979 and remains in prison today. The
culmination of an investigation spanning over twenty years and
a masterly reinvention of the true-crime thriller, A Wilderness
of Error is a shocking book because it shows that everything
we have been told about the case is deeply unreliable and that
crucial elements of case against MacDonald are simply not true.
n A New York Times bestseller
n Updated with new material on the latest developments in the
Jeffrey MacDonald case
n Includes timelines, illustrations, letters, and in-depth interviews
n The case has recently been reopened due to new DNA evidence
n Visit wildernessoferror.com and errolmorris.com, and
follow @errolmorris on Twitter
eRRol MoRRis is a world-renowned filmmaker whose
body of work includes A Brief History of Time, The Thin Blue Line,
and the Academy Award winner The Fog of War. He is the recipient
of a MacArthur “genius award” and the author of Believing Is
Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography. He lives in
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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