Dirty John and Other True Stories of Outlaws and Outsiders

“Dirty John” and other award-winning stories by Christopher Goffard are collected in "The $40 Lawyer" and "Framed." The podcast has been downloaded over 20 million times and will soon premiere as a scripted drama on Bravo. Goffard's work has been recognized with multiple awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 368 pages
Publication date: 15 November 2018
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

A collection of newspaper stories by award-winning Los Angeles Times reporter Christopher Goffard, including "Dirty John," the basis for the hit podcast and upcoming Bravo scripted series starring Connie Britton and Eric Bana, has been downloaded more than 20 million times and will soon premiere as a scripted drama on Bravo. The story, which also ran as a print series in the Los Angeles Times, was not 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 "Dirty John" and the rest of his very best work. "The $40 Lawyer" provides an inside account of a young public defender's rookie year in the legal trenches. "Framed" 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, and 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 Times Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2011 and has twice been a Pulitzer finalist for feature writing. This collection—a must-read for fans of both true-crime and first-rate narrative nonfiction—underscores his reputation as one of today's most outstanding journalists.

Weight: 298g
Dimension: 141 x 212 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781982113254