In July 1995, San Jose Mercury-News reporter Gary Webb found the Big One―the blockbuster story every journalist secretly dreams about―without even looking for it. A simple phone call concerning an unexceptional pending drug trial ...

Gary Webb had an inborn journalistic tendency to track down corruption and expose it. For over thirty-four years, he wrote stories about corruption from county, state, and federal levels. He had an almost magnetic effect to these kind...