Book description
The Tragedy of True Crime is a first-person journalistic account of the lives of four men who have killed, written by a man who has killed. Lennon entered the New York prison system with a sentence of 28 years to life. Later, he stepped into a writing workshop at Attica,…
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Unique! Imagine for a minute a talented American journalist incarcerated, doing time at Sing Sing Correctional facility. Now take that individual and allow him to interview fellow prisoners and glimpse into their mind, their past, their crime, and you have the foundation for The Tragedy of True Crime.
Author Lennon takes us “behind the scenes” in a debut non-fiction book. The author was convicted of killing a man in Brooklyn in 2001. He describes the event in incredible detail.
Now let us move on to the two prisoners that schemed to knock on the door of a parish church,…
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