Double Play: The San Francisco City Hall Killings

By: Jack Weiss

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Synopsis: Mike Weiss' book is one of the few that ticks down the seconds to the double killing of a City Supervisor and a Mayor and, though no one knew it at the time, to a social uprising that left much of the city in ruin. We get a picture of a professionally and financially desperate man whose act may have been largely to avenge his not being reinstated to his job after he resigned. This nuts-and-bolts synopsis is greatly detailed by Weiss' vivid reconstruction of the personalities and politics that were on a collision course, and his work emerges as an informative commentary on a major event in the city's rich history. Weiss creates an in-depth character study of White, which few other writers have attempted. In sum, this book has murder, sex, politics and family, their ultimate collision that eventually cost three lives is all the more tragic because it really happened.