American Fire Audiobook (Free)

Shocked with a five-month arson spree that remaining rural Virginia reeling, Washington Post reporter Monica Hesse drove right down to Accomack County to hide the trial of Charlie Smith, who pled guilty to sixty-seven counts of arson. But Charlie wasn’t lighting fires alone: he had an accomplice, his sweetheart Tonya Bundick.

Through her depiction from the dangerous shift that happened within their passionate relationship, Hesse brilliantly brings to life the once-thriving coastal community and its own distressed inhabitants, who had already been decimated with a punishing economy before these were terrified by a string of fires they could not clarify.

Incorporating this drama into the long-overlooked history of arson in america, American Flames re-creates the anguished nights that quiet county spent lit up in flames, mesmerizingly evoking a microcosm of rural America – a get half gutted prior to the fires even started.