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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.
Criminology Murder Serial Killers Social Sciences True Crime Scary
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Fascinating True Story • Captivating Psychological Thriller • Pleasant Voice • Redemptive Narrative • Suspenseful Plot
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It was a good listen but some could have been left out and it would have been better. The order is all over the place, at times I got lost wondering what happened, which it is picked up later on. I did find it interesting but is not worth listening to a second time.

I thought the narrator did a great job, at times he did put in a few character voices which were nice. There are no background noise, no volume changes and no repeating of words. He has a very pleasant voice

Runs on and takes things out of order

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Great true life story with redemption for a man that went to jail. Well written and the narrator was very good!

TRUE STORY

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I randomly picked this book today, and had zero idea is was set in my hometown. I have family that works for the Grant County sheriffs department and remembers this all too well. Well done!

I grew up in Gas City

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loved this. as a true crime fanatic this was hard to put down. performance was a little robotic but not distracting.

awesome book

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The performance was really good. The story is quite fascinating and while many reviews are critical that there isn’t enough between Keene and Hall or that the story jumps around, I thought the authors did a good job providing good backgrounds on both main characters, history lessons into the MCFP, the various investigations, victims and the efforts as of the book publication to find the missing women.

Well rounded story-telling

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Saw the show first and that was amazing and of course the book was just as amazing!

Great story!

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Soild story! I appreciate the building of the characters! Little slow in parts but overall great plot

Good story

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I wasn’t sure what to expect from this one.
It’s not bad. This man is telling the story of how he became involved in drug dealing, how he ended up in prison; and how he was given the opportunity to get out of prison early. All he has to do is get a confession from a serial killer.

Retrospective on a Life of Crime

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Overall, the story was great. I thought it was kinda interesting that Jimmy happened to be the best street fighter in the prison system and could take out any opponent with no problem at all lol. Probably a little hyperbole in his jail fight stories, but we get the gist.

Overall great story

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Good narrator - listened at 1.7-2.0 speed. Story interesting but main character was a disappointment, but seems true to the real person involved based on the description of events. I don’t typically listen to this genre- first one. Enjoyed it. Could have been even a bitter shorter without losing its focus

True crime story

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