Eros, Magic and the Murder of Professor Culianu

On May 21, 1991, University of Chicago professor Ioan Culianu was murdered execution-style on campus. The crime stunned the school, terrified students, and mystified the FBI. The case remains unsolved. In Eros, Magic, and the Murder of Professor Culianu, award-winning investigative reporter Ted Anton shows that the murder is what Culianu's friends suspected all along: the first political assassination of a professor on American soil.

"Fascinating and excellent . . . important not just because it illuminates history, but because at the center of the story is Ioan Culianu, a figure so interesting no novelist could invent him. [In this murder] fiction and fact change places in a deadly game of masks and illusions." --Andrei Codrescu