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You are convicts. Your job here is to lie, cheat, steal, extort, get tattoos, take drugs, sell drugs, shank and sock each other. Just don’t let us catch you – that’s our job. We catch you, you got nothin’ coming. It is your worst nightmare. You wake up naked in an eight-by-ten-foot steel cell designated ‘Suicide Watch #3’. The cell is real. Jimmy Lerner, former family man and corporate strategic planner, has become a prison ‘fish’, or green new arrival. Taken to a penitentiary in the Nevada desert to serve a twelve-year sentence for voluntary manslaughter, this previously nice Jewish boy from Brooklyn ends up sharing a claustrophobic cell with Kansas, a hugely muscled skinhead with a swastika tattooed on his neck and a serious set of issues. You Got Nothing Coming takes us into a corrupt world powered by violence, drugs, rape, fear and racial hatred. With brash, dark humour Jimmy Lerner tells us how the techniques learnt in management seminars have helped him survive in this hostile environment, and how a lethal act of self-defence landed him in this circle of American prison hell in the first place. Bracingly cynical and perceptive, this terrifying story is all truth.
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'A considerable achievement...Forthrightly pulls back the curtain on a brutal system of punitive penal warehousing' -- The Washington Post
'Compelling and often screamingly funny...If you enjoyed The Shawshank Redemption, you will enjoy this even more' -- Sunday Express
'Extraordinary humour, a raw tension and an ear for dialogue straight from God.' -- Independent
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The staggering memoir of a middle-class, middle-aged man who fell into the inferno of the American prison system, and what he had to do to survive
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- PublisherCorgi
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0552149659
- ISBN 13 9780552149655
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages416
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