Untouchable: The Strange Life and Tragic Death of Michael Jackson - Hardcover

Praise for Untouchable "Sullivan reveals a man who was not the pedophilic, transgendered, transracial freak the media thought he was, but a highly intelligent and sensitive perfectionist, more self-aware--and ashamed--of his surgically altered looks than the public ever knew. . . . Sullivan's sensitive portrait of [Jackson] is a good start toward explaining and rehabilitating a lonely genius who was poorly understood in his lifetime."--Kirkus Reviews Praise for Randall Sullivan "Like its title, this book has something miraculous in it. Imagine, if you can, a book . . . that will interest, and satisfy, both the pious and skeptical. That book is this one. Mr. Sullivan's cast of unlikely characters recalls the inhabitants of other mountains, Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain or Thomas Merton's The Seven Storey Mountain." --The Washington Times on The Miracle Detective "An intrepid Portland journalist crafts a fascinating exploration of how the Catholic Church investigates purported sightings of the Virgin Mary; a globe-trotting, first-person spiritual odyssey that took him to northeastern Oregon, Arizona, Bosnia, the Vatican and beyond." --Seattle Post-Intelligencer on The Miracle Detective "[An] engrossing, damning tale of widespread unchecked corruption in one of the nation's largest police departments, one that deserves attention. . . . Exhaustively researched, the book methodically weaves a disturbing story of corruption, intimidation, and murder." --Boston Globe on LAbyrinth