Her rise, her triumph, her tragic loss--only James Patterson can tell the full story of America's tragedy. In the early hours of Sunday, August 5, 1962, Marilyn Monroe's live-in housekeeper wakes with a sinking feeling. She knocks loudly at her employer's locked bedroom door, and when there is no answer, she calls Monroe's psychiatrist, Ralph Greenson.
Greenson breaks into Monroe's bedroom and finds a horrifying scene: the thirty-six-year-old...