Author: Steve Mcvicker
Translator: Dong-seop Cho
Publisher: Book Folio
264 pages | 198*138mm
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About This Book
To escape from a Texas jail or prison once is unusual. To do it four
times is incredible. To do it four times in five years and always on a
Friday the 13th is the stuff of legend. Welcome to the world of Steven
Russell. Con artist. Thief. Swindler. Embezzler. Hopeless romantic.
A husband and father, Russell was a church organist, prosperous
businessman, and onetime Boca Raton cop before turning to his life of
crime. Arrested for a string of felonies, with a specialty in fraud, his
real expertise turned out to be his uncanny ability to escape from jail.
Between 1993 and 1998, he orchestrated a string of prison breaks that
were as audacious as they were ingenious. Using whatever unlikely
materials were at hand -- a Magic Marker, a pay phone, a walkie-talkie,
a pair of stolen bright red women's stretch pants -- along with an
innate talent for analytical thinking and boundless quantities of sheer
nerve, Russell again and again arranged his own "early releases" from
jail. Unfortunately, for Russell, staying out of jail is another matter
entirely.
Over the years, it became increasingly clear that Russell's talent for
escape is matched only by his knack for getting arrested. One thing
always seems to trump Steven Russell's careful planning, cool head, and
instinct for self-preservation -- love. Russell cannot resist the urge
to try and spring the great love of his life -- a fellow inmate named
Phillip Morris.
In I Love You Phillip Morris, journalist Steve McVicker goes right to
the heart of this improbable-but-true story of crime, punishment, and
passion. Thanks to unprecedented and exclusive access to Russell, his
family, and his friends, he retraces Russell's journey from small-town
businessman to flamboyant white-collar criminal and jailhouse Houdini.
It's the darkly comic tale of a man with a spectacular ability to
manipulate almost everyone he meets, yet who is himself helpless in the
face of love.
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