Zebra: The True Account of the 179 Days of Terror in San Francisco by Clark Howard [FIRST EDITION / 1979]

Zebra: The True Account of the 179 Days of Terror in San Francisco by Clark Howard FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING [1979] RICHARD MAREK PUBLISHERS Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition. Cool dust jacket with metallic red title across cover; in great shape with some  shelf/rub wear; small sealed tear to upper edge.     Book itself is mint; looks and reads like new!  Edgar Award Finalist: The true story of a string of brutal crimes committed in the name of religious fanaticism and racial hatred in 1970s San Francisco. In the early 1970s, a small band of well-dressed, clean-cut African American men began terrorizing the residents of San Francisco with guns and machetes. Their victims ranged from a teenage Salvation Army cadet to a middle-aged Jordanian grocer to an eighty-one-year-old janitor. The streets became deserted and tourism plunged. It took months before the culprits could be identified, with the help of an informer. They were members of a Black Muslim cult aspiring