title: Life In Prison: Eight Hours at a Time
author:  Robert Reilly 
description: This is a must read for anyone interested in a truly authentic look at life behind the walls.<br /> - <strong>Lt. D. L. Croley, Prison Inspector, PA Dept. of Corrections</strong><br /><br />He holds nothing back, relating a hellish experience in gripping, scary detail, well-earned page by well-earned page. Reader be warned: Theres no escape from Life in Prison.<br /> - <strong>Hodding Carter, author, A Viking Voyage and Off the Deep End</strong><br /><br />Robert Reilly is a born and inspired storyteller who knows his craft as well as he knows his subject. His voice is an authentic howl, as true as a blues singers coming out of the swamps of hell.<br /> - <strong>Peter Nichols, author, A Voyage for Mad Men and Evolutions Captain</strong><br /><br />Take a man, an artist, musician, writer, and cast him down into the stone steel hell of prison, but not as an inmate, as a guard, with all the pressures and dangers and bizarre human interactions inherent in that situation and you have the setting for a powerful, brutally honest and inspiring book that will touch, shock and ultimately heal all those who read it...<br /> - <strong>Billy Hayes, author, Midnight Express</strong>
zlib_text: LIFE
  LIFE?
  AFTER
  
  Imagine you find yourself imprisoned 
  in a strange land. You have been  
  imprisoned for several weeks. 
   
  One day, two guards come to your cell. With them is  
  a man dressed in a suit carrying a brown briefcase.  
  They stand in front of your cell door. The man in the  
  suit pulls out a piece of paper from the briefcase.  
  He mentions your name, then hands you the paper.  
  It reads:
  In about one hour from reading this, you will die. It might  
  be a bit more or a bit less than an hour, but when your  
  time is up you will not be able to escape the punishment, 
  Death! No one has ever escaped from this punishment 
  except through one way. Those who have completed a 
  single simple task. If you complete this task you will live. 
  Indeed, not only will you live but your life will be 
  unimaginably better than it is right now. This task will take 
  no more than five minutes of the one hour you have left. 
  The task is to call your mother and tell her that she’s the 
  only mother you