The Summer Wind: Thomas Capano and the Murder of Anne Marie Fahey

by George Anastasia

Book Overview

Drawing from legal testimony and interviews, the author examines the trial of lawyer Thomas J. Capano for the murder of Anne-Marie Fahey, a tale of politics, wealth, arrogance, and sex that rocked... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060393149
• ISBN13: 9780060393144
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: ReganBooks
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

Gripping

The Summer Wind is investigative reporting at its finest. George Anastasia goes behind the scenes of Delaware's Trial of the Century, uncovering the good, bad and plain out ugly of the Capano family and its golden boy Tom Capano's seriously twisted psyche. Capano, clever, intelligent, successful attorney and partner, and also a serial adulterer and apparently a man with little or no conscience, begins a relationship with Anne Marie Fahey, secretary to Delaware's governor. When she wants to end the relationship after several years, he is not willing to let her go and kills her, disposing her body in an ice cooler in the Atlantic, in order to keep control. What makes this tale of the sad Fahey-Capano case superior to other versions is Anastasia's unbiased reporting. Rather than making Fahey look like an unwitting party, he admits her faults and knowledge that she was conducting an illicit affair with a married man. He tirelessly relives Fahey and Capano's relationship, with their email correspondences and Fahey's diary entries. In this way, Fahey comes across as a real person, faults and all. He spends equal time dissecting the Capano family and, in particular, Tom's long history of lies, deceit and schemes. Even knowing the outcome of the trial, this book still had me eagerly turning each page - - feeling sympathy and sorrow for the Fahey family, for Tom Capano's long suffering wife and daughters and absolutely repulsion for Tom Capano himself. A classic case of someone having everything only to throw it all away. Definitely recommended over the other Capano books out there.

The cooler wouldn't sink.

I started this book in Las Vegas in August ... and I couldn't stop myself from reading. It took me three days (with all the distractions the Venetian has to offer). Anastasia's style was wonderfully blunt. I knew the outcome going in, yet I couldn't wait to turn the next page and read how this author laid it out for me. An incredible story that could've been handled like so many of those "O.J." books ... but it wasn't. Incredibly well done. Bravo, Mr. Anastasia. You have a way with words ...

Best of the 3!

I have read the three books written on the Fahey murder. This is, by far, the best. This book clearly answers the question of why Fahey fell out-of-love with Capano. Summer Wind also gives a more complete description of the complex personalities of the major players. Unlike Karem's and Rule's books, after reading Summer Wind there will be no questions left unanswered.

As someone intimately involved in this case...GoodJob

Yes, I was one of the players, and insiders. It has been an emotional roller coaster dealing with the loss of Anne Marie over the past three years. This case being the most traumatic thing that has and probably ever will touch my life, I actually felt some sense of closure upon reading George Anastasia's book.I thought there was nothing I din't know about the case. But, somehow the author's chronological tale helped to put more detail together for me. It is a very complicated story. With many characters. I think Anastasia did an amazing job. I only wish It wasn't true.

Insightful, beautifully written, deserves recognition!!!!!!

This is not simply a true crime story. We all know what happened if we followed the story. What is unique is Anastasia's interpretation of these tragic events --- of a woman so scarred by her heartbreaking youth that she was vulnerable to the charm, false promise and shallow lure of this well-heeled psychopath Thomas Capano. There's a lot that can be said about what we value today --- money, position, and material goods above character, love and goodness. George Anastasia is triumphant in his depiction of the riveting twists and turns of this sad tale but he is dead on in his take on our sick culture. BRAVO! BRAVO! BRAVO!