True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa - Softcover

Finkel, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060580488 ISBN 13: 9780060580483

Publisher: Perennial, 2006

Synopsis

In February 2002, New York Times Magazine writer Michael Finkel received a startling piece of news: a young man named Christian Longo, wanted for killing his entire family, had been captured in Mexico, where he'd taken on a new identity: Michael Finkel of the New York Times.

The next day, on page A-3 of the Times, came another troubling item: a note from the editors explaining that Finkel, having falsified parts of an investigative article, had been fired. Nonetheless, the only journalist Longo would speak with was the real Michael Finkel, and so Finkel placed a call to Oregon's Lincoln County jail, intent on getting the true story. So began a bizarre and intense relationship--a reporting job that morphed into a shrewd game of cat-and-mouse. Part mystery, part memoir, part mea culpa, True Story weaves a spellbinding tale of murder, love, and deceit with a deeply personal inquiry into the slippery nature of truth.

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Title: True Story( Murder Memoir Mea Culpa) <>Binding: Paperback <>Author: MichaelFinkel <>Publisher: HarperPerennial

Review:

A memoir as creepy as it is compelling...expertly and suspensefully told.--Outside magazine

A riveting, disturbing and magnificent merging of two men at their lowest moments.--New York Newsday

A compulsively readable amorality tale.--Boston Globe

Always fascinating, sometimes funny, often very weird . . . simply terrific from the first page to the last.--Jeffrey Toobin

"Carefully structured, rigorously reported, and fascinating till the end."--Esquire

Combines crime and intellectual heft...could well become a classic of the genre.--Washington Post Book World

"Astute and hypnotically absorbing . . . there's a burning sincerity and beautifully modulated writing on every page."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

About this edition

• Publisher: Perennial
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0060580488
• ISBN 13: 9780060580483
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320