A Terrible Thunder: The Story of the New Orleans Sniper (Revised)Paperback - Revised, 8 February 2005

On New Year's Eve in New Orleans, 1972, Mark James Essex began violent and deadly sniper attacks on policemen. Before it ended one week later, hundreds of heavily armed police and a Marine Corps assault helicopter went to a burning down-town hotel to battle gunmen who refused to surrender or to be killed.