Exhibitions
Scott Eden with Robert Sanchez Live at Tattered Cover Colfax
Join us for a fascinating conversation with award-winning investigative journalists Scott Eden and 5280 senior staff writer, Robert Sanchez, about Scott's new true crime book, A Killing in Cannabis: A True Story of Love, Murder, and California Weed on Friday, February 27th at 6:00 PM at our Colfax location.
Registration includes the following options:
We will have a limited supply of additional books for guests to purchase in store. Only a book ticket guarantees you a copy of the book.
If you are unable to attend the event after purchasing a ticket, you are required to pick up your copy of the book (with proof of purchase from your event registration) within 7 days after the event date. If the book is not picked up by that date, you relinquish your copy to Tattered Cover Book Store.
ABOUT THE BOOK
“A deeply reported literary nonfiction masterpiece.”—Wright Thompson
A shocking murder at the nexus of Silicon Valley, California surf culture, and the cannabis gold rush exposes the dark side of the legal weed business in this revelatory work of investigative journalism.
Santa Cruz is one of the country’s surf meccas and a favored getaway of the Silicon Valley elite. For decades, marijuana has been cultivated, consumed, and trafficked in these mountains, one of the most important regions in the country for the crop. It’s where Ken Kesey threw his wild parties, where back-to-the-land types came to live off the grid, and where Tushar Atre, Silicon Valley entrepreneur, was found brutally murdered.
Charismatic, ambitious, arrogant, and rich, Atre was the leader among a clutch of tech execs and venture capitalists with a voracious appetite for risk, work, and money, riding waves at dawn and then putting in fourteen-hour days. When he met Rachael Lynch, a maverick cannabis grower and mover of product, he had a vision of how their lives could come together in business and in love. Atre sought to disrupt the newly legal cannabis trade by funding a start-up with black-market capital. This illegal pursuit would entangle him with an array of colorful and dangerous characters, many of whom had compelling reason to want him dead.
Award-winning journalist Scott Eden’s panoramic investigation exposes the symbiotic relationship between the legal weed world and its shadowy, black-market counterpart. It is a story of love, greed, and betrayal, set in a world where visionaries, hippies, masters of the universe, and stone-cold killers are all stakeholders, eager to exploit the power of the plant.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Scott Eden is an award-winning investigative journalist whose work has appeared in publications like Wired, GQ, ESPN The Magazine, The Atavist Inc., and The Believer’s best-of collection Read Hard. He is the author of Touchdown Jesus: Faith and Fandom at Notre Dame. He lives in New Jersey.
ABOUT THE CONVERSATION PARTNER
Robert Sanchez is 5280 magazine’s award-winning senior staff writer whose work has spanned topics from housing insecurity to Civil War-era serial killers. His work has earned recognition from the National Magazine Awards and the City and Regional Magazine Association. Several of his stories are anthologized in notable writing collections. Beyond 5280, Sanchez’s features have appeared in outlets such as ESPN, Sports Illustrated, and Esquire. A three-time CRMA writer of the year, Sanchez teaches advanced reporting and writing at the University of Denver and is an advisor to Unbound Authors, a nonprofit that supports incarcerated writers. Sanchez and his wife have two children in college and two golden retrievers that failed obedience school.
