num_pages: 236
description: I killed and buried my best friend today ... When authorities found Raffi Kodikian -- barely alive -- four days after he and his friend David Coughlin became lost in Rattlesnake Canyon, they made a grim and shocking discovery. Kodikian freely admitted that he had stabbed Coughlin twice in the heart. Had there been a darker motive than mercy? And how could anyone, under any circumstances, kill his best friend? Armed with the journal Kodikian and Coughlin carried into Rattle- snake Canyon, Jason Kersten re-creates in riveting detail those fateful days that led to the killing in an infamously unforgiving wilderness.
language: English
title: Journal of the Dead: A Story of Friendship and Murder in the New Mexico Desert
titlecomplete: Journal of the Dead: A Story of Friendship and Murder in the New Mexico Desert
genres: Mystery, Nature, True Crime, Crime, Survival, Westerns, American, Nonfiction, Travel, Adventure
ratings_count: 536
publisher: Harper Perennial