Death Row Breakout
And Other Stories
Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. · Print & ebook · April 9, 2013
Six stories from the papers of one of America’s finest crime authors Roger doesn’t mean for the preacher and his wife to die.
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- Who it’s for
- Readers drawn to crime fiction about an attempted prison escape
- Themes
- Crime and criminality, Incarceration, Desperate escape
- Genres
- Crime Fiction, Short Stories (Single Author), Noir Fiction
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Six stories from the papers of one of America’s finest crime authors Roger doesn’t mean for the preacher and his wife to die. Released less than a year earlier from San Quentin, he’s trying to make a living the only way he knows how: theft. His latest heist goes perfectly until his car breaks down. Sirens are closing in when an old black preacher stops to give him a lift. The police at the roadblock kill the elderly couple, but in the eyes of the law it’s Roger’s fault.
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And he will die in the gas chamber at San Quentin—unless he can break out first. Roger’s incredible story anchors this collection of short fiction by Edward Bunker, who knew better than anyone what it means to be a criminal, inside and outside of prison. In these stories, which were unpublished at the time of his death in 2005, he shows again the talent that made him such a remarkable writer.
Who it’s for
- Readers drawn to crime fiction about an attempted prison escape
- Readers interested in collections of short crime fiction
Where it sits
| Short Stories (Single Author) | 73% |
|---|---|
| Crime Fiction | 58% |
| Noir Fiction | 27% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Mystery Anthologies
- Short Stories (Single Author)
- Authors
- Edward Bunker
- Publisher
- Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
- Published
- April 9, 2013
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Crime and criminality · Incarceration · Desperate escape
- Reading lane
- Mystery Anthologies