by Mikal Gilmore
appears in True Crime, Mystery & Crime, and Fiction.
Gary Gilmore, the infamous murderer immortalized by Norman Mailer in The Executioner's Song, campaigned for his own death and was executed by firing squad in 1977. Writer Mikal Gilmore is his younger brother. In Shot in the Heart, he tells the stunning story of their wildly dysfunctional family: their mother, a blacksheep daughter of unforgiving Mo...
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appears in True Crime, Mystery & Crime, and Fiction.
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“Bradley Hope stitches reporting into a cinematic account of a flamboyant 'modern Gatsby' and the billion-dollar schemes that followed. The narrative favors scene-by-scene reconstructions, interviews, and a reporter's eye for scandal, so it moves more like crime reporting than a finance textbook. Its useful part is storytelling: vivid episodes and timeline reconstruction that make complex deals feel tangible. Its limitation is repetition and transactional overload—readers seeking systematic, analytical explanations of the mechanics may find the account anecdote-heavy and unevenly paced.”
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