True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa

by Michael Finkel

Overview

Now a Major Motion Picture Starring Jonah Hill & James Franco and Distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures

When New York Times reporter Michael Finkel meets accused killer Christian Longo–who has taken on Finkel's identity–his investigation morphs into an unforgettable game of cat and mouse. True Story weaves a spellbinding tale of murder, love, deceit, and redemption, following Finkel's relentless pursuit of the shocking truth.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062339270
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	04/07/2015
Pages:	352
Sales rank:	163,409
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Michael Finkel has written for National Geographic, GQ, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Vanity Fair, the Atlantic, and the New York Times Magazine. He lives in western Montana.

What People are Saying About This

Jeffrey Toobin

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

Editorial Reviews

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

Outside magazine

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

Jeffrey Toobin

Combines crime and intellectual heft...could well become a classic of the genre.

Washington Post Book World

A riveting, disturbing and magnificent merging of two men at their lowest moments.

New York Newsday

A compulsively readable amorality tale.

Boston Globe

Carefully structured, rigorously reported, and fascinating till the end.

Esquire

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

Outside Magazine