The Ashes of Waco

Reavis brings to the task an impressive array of official documents and interviews, including the complete transcripts of all the FBI’s negations with the Branch Davidians… . That he, a skeptical journalist who never quite leaves his secularist amazement aside, could come to comprehend David Koresh is surely testimony to the possibility that had FBI agents been encouraged to do so, they might similarly have come to understand the ‘Bible Babble’ they merely dismissed.– “Review of Politics”Reavis has sifted the mass of available evidence … to create a more damning portrait of official hubris, incompetence and deceit.– “The New York Times Book Review”

Dick J. Reavis was a 1990 Nieman Fellow in Journalism. He has been a Senior Editor of Texas Monthly, a reporter for the Dallas Observer, and a business correspondent for the San Antonio Light, and has written for numerous publications. He is the author of several books, including Conversations with Moctezuma and Fodor’s Texas.