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...it in your lap. This is the case with this book as two reporters, Michael Sallah and Mitch Weiss, were handed 25,000 documents of former Army Criminal Investigation Division Commander Henry Tufts' personal papers. The Tufts collection dealt with war crimes cases during the Vietnam War. The book grew out of an investigative newspaper series by these two men that was published in the Blade of Toledo, Ohio, and the Pittsburg Post-Gazette from October 19-22, 2003, earning the pair the Pulitzer Prize for reporting. The cache of documents was a gift. But the luck factor subsided and was overridden by a tremendous amount of intensive research, writing, interviewing, and editorial work resulting in the article series and eventually this book.
In the last box of the Tufts papers, Sallah found a folder marked the "Coy Allegation." The case was named after Gary Coy, a soldier...
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