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"[Rother] has been able to tell a story that will reach those who need to hear that such pain can be endured and such terror can be overcome, that survival and even triumph over adversity are entirely possible."
-- From the Introduction by Margo Bennett
"A harrowing tale of one woman’s struggle to maintain a balance between being a mother, a FBI agent, and dealing with a corrupt husband also an FBI Agent. A must read."
-- Joseph D. Pistone aka Donnie Brasco
"This book will haunt you. It will move you to look at some of the harsh realities of life in a new way. A powerful story -- and masterfully written."
-- Aphrodite Jones, best-selling author, All She Wanted and Cruel Sacrifice
Dear Editor/Producer:
The story of Margo Bennett may sound like the premise of a Lifetime TV movie or a paperback thriller. But the events presented in TWISTED TRIANGLE are not fiction -- TWISTED TRIANGLE: A Famous Crime Writer, a Lesbian Love Affair, and the FBI Husband’s Violent Revenge (Jossey-Bass, and imprint of Wiley; May 2008; $26.95 Cloth; ISBN: 9780787995850) by Caitlin Rother is the first complete account of Margo’s kidnapping in 1993, and the events leading up to the attempt on her life in 1996.
What started as a marriage between two powerful FBI agents turned into a highly publicized criminal drama after Margo’s husband, undercover agent Gene Bennett, discovered his wife’s love affair with best-selling author Patricia Cornwell. After he kidnapped Margo and attempted to murder her, the case made national and international headlines, reported in Vanity Fair, Newsweek, People, The Washington Post and The New York Times.
TWISTED TRIANGLE reveals the dramatic details of the violent incident, the trial, and the aftermath. Rother relays the famous lesbian affair with celebrity author Patricia Cornwell, the rise and fall of Margo and Gene’s FBI careers, Gene's reactive kidnapping and attempt to kill Margo, Gene’s insanity defense, the trial details that validate Margo’s story, and a happy ending to her tale of survival.
Margo Bennett currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she is a captain in the University of California, Berkeley campus police department. Gene Bennett is incarcerated in Virginia, not far from the Washington DC area, where most of the events of this incredible story took place.
Caitlin Rother is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist and a former investigative reporter for The San Diego Union-Tribune. She has won three awards in the Best of the West contest, which judges stories from the thirteen western states. She also won best feature story in the Associated Press News Executives Council contest and a best news-feature award from the Los Angeles Press Club. Rother has also written for Cosmopolitan, the Los Angeles Times, the Daily News of Los Angeles, The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, and the Boston Globe and is author of Naked Addiction and Poisoned Love. She lives in San Diego, CA.
I hope you consider TWISTED TRIANGLE in your coverage. Please contact me, Sarah Gorback, publicist for Wiley, with questions or requests at (415) 782-3213 or sgorback@wiley.com.