The Suspect: An Olympic Bombing, the FBI, the Media, and Richard Jewell, the Man Caught in the Middle

The Suspect is the masterful true-crime account of the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing that captured the world’s attention and the heroic security guard-turned-suspect at the heart of it all.

Basis for the Warner Bros. film Richard Jewell, directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Sam Rockwell, Kathy Bates, Jon Hamm, Olivia Wilde, and Paul Walter Hauser

On July 27, 1996, a hapless former cop turned hypervigilant security guard named Richard Jewell spotted a suspicious bag in Atlanta’s C...