Title: poorly written
Product review: I was shocked to find out that the author is a journalist/reporter. The subject matter is a very good choice. The writing is bad. The author goes off on unimportant tangents for perhaps 20 pages at a time until you start to lose track of what the main story line is,and he does this abruptly without warning. Has gratuitous sex and profanity. By gratuitous I mean just that,a large amount that is not important to the story and therefore not only ceases to shock but becomes boring. I finally only decided to finish the book because I was unfamiliar with the case and wanted to know what happened. I would have thought the author would have learned his craft before attempting to write a book. Ialso do not understand why it was not edited by the publisher and allowed to go to market this way.Avoid this author. Maybe read something like True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa by michael finkel instead to see how a journalist is capable of telling a real story.peter soldan
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