Joe McGinniss is the bestselling author of The Selling of the President, Fatal Vision and Never Enough, among others. His new book is The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sara Palin.

On her book tour, Sarah Barracuda pretends to be one of the people. But she's really winging across the country on a private jet.

The Dutch oil giant will pay out a paltry $15 million to the families of 10 murdered Nigerians, including activist Ken Saro-Wiwa—and it will admit no wrongdoing in their deaths. True-crime author Joe McGinniss smells a rat.