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    612-822-4611

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In the Name of the Son: The Gerry Conlon Story

In the Name of the Son: The Gerry Conlon Story

O'Rawe, Richard
Depp, Johnny

Paperback

Biographies GeneralCriminologyBritish History

ISBN10: 178537138X
ISBN13: 9781785371387
Publisher: Merrion Press
Published: Oct 18 2017
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
This book is a tour de force . a chronicle of the triumph of the human spirit over extreme adversity. It is a story of hope. It is the story of a man I loved and would have taken a bullet for. --Johnny Depp ***An electrified young man, with eyes wild and a clenched fist, bursts out of the Old Bailey and declares his innocence to the world. Gerry Conlon has just won his appeal for the 1974 Guildford pub bombing. After fifteen years in prison, freedom beckons. Or does it? Following his release, Conlon received close to one million pounds from government compensation, movie and book deals; he ran in the same circles as Johnny Depp, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Shane MacGowan. Conlon seemed to have it all. Yet within five years he was hooked on crack cocaine and eating out of bins in the backstreets of London. Beyond the elation of his release was the awful descent into addiction, isolation and self-loathing. But this is a book about the resilience of the human spirit. What emerges from the darkness and the addiction is Gerry Conlon the pacifist; the man who came to be recognised around the world as a campaigner against miscarriages of justice. In the Name of the Son also reveals damning new evidence of statement tampering by the authorities which would've cleared Conlon at the initial trial. Life-long friend, Richard O'Rawe, has written a powerful and candid story of Gerry Conlon's extraordinary life following his years of brutal incarceration at the hands of the British justice system. [Subject: Irish Studies, British Studies, Biography, History, Criminal Justice]

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