Beyond the Ides: Why March Is the Unluckiest Month of All

What do Martin Luther King, Jr., Abraham Lincoln, and Ronald Reagan all have in common? HINT: They share the same fateful phenomenon that afflicted the Titanic, the Deepwater Horizon, Japan's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Facility, the Exxon Valdez and so many more.

From John Belushi to John Candy, Sharon Tate to Watergate, count less ill-fated pop stars, politicians and personalities also suffered tragi cally from this eerie link.

Give up? They all fell victim to sudden, sick twists of epic bad luck during the third month of the year, sending them spinning off into catastrophic disaster — proof that March is, and always has been, the unluckiest month of all. Just ask Julius Caesar.

From assassinations that changed the course of human history and bizarre celebrity deaths to uncanny disasters that should have been avoided, Beyond the Ides is chock full of March mayhem, murders and massive nuclear meltdowns. This book breathes new life into the an cient superstitions surrounding the month that comes roaring in like a lion. Reading Beyond the Ides will make you be among the growing number who know to beware the ides of March.