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Black Bird

By: James Keene, Hillel Levin
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
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James Keene had it all: cars, girls, houses up and down the Gold Coast. But behind his well-connected star athlete façade was a money-obsessed drug dealer desperate to make the big score to get him out of the business. When he was sentenced to prison, it seemed the only lessons he would learn would be about navigating convict society. Instead, he was offered a chance to regain his freedom in return for going undercover in the nation’s highest security prison for the criminally insane. His task: to get friendly with Larry Hall, a mentally unbalanced serial rapist and murderer, and obtain his confession. For nearly a year, Keene walked the line between the part he played and the self he hoped to redeem, all the while dodging punches from deranged inmates, currying favor with imprisoned Mafia dons, and staying beneath the radar of Larry’s oddly protective psychiatrist.

©2010 James Keene with Hillel Levin (P)2010 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Crime Murder Social Sciences True Crime
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I have to say. I do not enjoy the gratuitous nature of many true crime offerings. I found this, matter of fact, Delivery both engaging and refreshing. I would wholeheartedly recommend listening to this audiobook.

Engaging

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Well worth it

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could have been a good listening experience but wasn't suffers from poor editing,
the narration is so bland and lifeless it could put someone on a meth binge to sleep. I've seen statues with more life in them than this

a book to fall asleep to

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