Murder in the Fourth Estate: The Assassination of Investigative Journalist Don Bolles

"They finally got me... Emprise...the Mafia...John Adamson. Find him." Investigative reporter Don Bolles used his final words to name the people he believed had set the car bomb that had left him dying in a hotel parking lot in midtown Phoenix.

In his fourteen years as one of Arizona's top reporters, Bolles took on the Mafia, land fraud kingpins, and corrupt politicians. And someone wanted him silenced. Murder in the Fourth Estate is the first definitive account of the case, which is the most infamous assassination of a journalist in American history.

Author: Jeremy Duda
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 04/16/2026
Pages: 344
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.48lbs
Size: 9.05h x 6.44w x 1.07d
ISBN: 9798881805128

About the Author
Jeremy Duda is an award-winning journalist for Axios in Phoenix who's spent the bulk of his 23-year career covering Arizona politics and government. He's also the author of If This Be Treason: The American Rogues and Rebels Who Walked the Line Between Dissent and Betrayal (2016).