Overview
Since its release in fall 2017, the āDirty Johnā podcastāabout a conman who terrorizes a Southern California familyāhas been downloaded more than 20 million times, and will soon premiere as a scripted drama on Bravo starring Connie Britton and Eric Bana. The story, which also ran as a print series in the Los Angeles Times, wasnāt unfamiliar terrain to its writer, Christopher Goffard. Over two decades at newspapers from Florida to California, Goffard has reported probingly on the shadowy, unseen corners of society. This book gathers together for the first time āDirty Johnā and the rest of his very best work.
āThe $40 Lawyerā provides an inside account of a young public defenderās rookie year in the legal trenches. āFramedā offers an unblinking chronicle of suburban mayhem (and is currently being developed by Netflix as a film starring Julia Roberts). A man wrongly imprisoned for rape, train-riding runaways in love, a Syrian mother forced to leave her children in order to save them, a boy who grows up to become a cop as a way of honoring his murdered sister, another boy who struggles with the knowledge that his father is on death row: these stories reveal the complexities of human nature, showing people at both their most courageous and their most flawed.
Goffard shared in the Los Angeles Timesā Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2011 and has twice been a Pulitzer finalist for feature writing. This collectionāa must-read for fans of both true-crime and first-rate narrative nonfictionāunderscores his reputation as one of todayās most original journalistic voices.
This book title, Dirty John and Other True Stories of Outlaws and Outsiders, ISBN: 9781982113254, by Christopher Goffard, published by Simon & Schuster (November 13, 2018) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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