True Story Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa |
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Author:
| Finkel, Michael |
ISBN: | 978-0-7011-7688-4 |
Publication Date: | Jun 2005 |
Publisher: | Penguin Random House
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Imprint: | Vintage |
Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | AUD $49.95 |
Book Description:
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Michael Finkel was a top New York Times Magazine journalist publicly fired and disgraced for making up a composite character in a big investigative news piece about Africa. This book is about how an ambitious, high-achieving journalist found himself at that point in his life. But in parallel it is also about Christian Longo, a man accused of the multiple murder of his own wife and three children (their bodies found in Oregon waterways, the smallest and largest in suitcases). After the...
More DescriptionMichael Finkel was a top New York Times Magazine journalist publicly fired and disgraced for making up a composite character in a big investigative news piece about Africa. This book is about how an ambitious, high-achieving journalist found himself at that point in his life. But in parallel it is also about Christian Longo, a man accused of the multiple murder of his own wife and three children (their bodies found in Oregon waterways, the smallest and largest in suitcases). After the deaths, Longo fled to Mexico where he passed himself off as Michael Finkel, New York Times journalist. These two weird stories come together as Finkel in turn becomes fascinated (perhaps obsessed) with Longo the accused murderer, who while in prison and during his trial would talk only to Finkel. Who is using whom...' There is finally only one possible outcome, but the mental journey that Finkel takes with Longo is bizarre and unnerving. Finkel has written a fascinating, disturbing story that combines an incisive analysis of truth, lies and jounalism with a frightening account of brutal murder and manipulative deception. Tautly written, painfully honest and intelligently framed, TRUE STORY is a cautionary tale for our times, grippingly told.