Rough Trade

The Story

SHE WENT FROM COP...On May 16, 1997, a petite 22-year-old prostitute named Anita Paley died in a Denver hospital. Her head had been bludgeoned, her genitals slashed by her crazed attacker. Police soon arrested psychotic murderer Robert Riggan. But to put him away, prosecutors needed one key witness...TO HOOKER...Joanne Cordova was a former cop-turned-crack addict and hooker who had submitted to violent sex with Riggan in exchange for drugs -- before narrowly escaping the same fate as her friend, Anita Paley. Now, she had to do the right thing and tell a jury just how brutal Riggan was. But first, she had to clean up her act.TO HERO...New York Times bestselling author Steve Jackson tells the riveting story of a monster who preyed on women, his tragic final victim, and the woman who pulled herself out of a seething criminal underworld -- and her own private hell -- to see justice done.INCLUDES 16 PAGES OF SHOCKING PHOTOS!