True Story Tie-In Edition: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa, (Paperback)

from marywhisner

Sometimes real life deals out a coincidence worthy of Dickens (or Hiaasen). Here we have Michael Finkel, a N.Y. Times reporter fired in disgrace for fabricating a story, who meets up with Chris Longa, a suspected murderer who'd been hiding in Mexico telling people he was a N.Y. Times reporter: Mi...

from AnaraGuard

A fascinating account, as the subtitle would indicate, that probes what it means to be truthful both through self-revelation and through interviews with a sociopath incapable of telling the truth.

from seasonsoflove

Michael Finkel was a New York Times Journalist who was fired after it was revealed he falsified details in a story. Christian Longo was a man accused of having murdered his entire family. What brought these two men together was the name Michael Finkel. While on the run from the law in Mexico, Lon...

from iBeth

This book is well written. But the crime it addresses is so vile that I found I could not finish the book. I just didn't want to read an in-depth portrait of the killer, or listen to his self-serving lies. I skipped from chapter 23 to chapter 40, and from reading the last two chapters (40-41) I d...