Excellent, excellent! As much as was possible, Ken Cooper gives us a picture of life behind bars in some of the most notorious prisons in Florida. His real-life experience says more than words. And he gives us just a glimpse of the criminal mind.

I thought the book was well written, knowing that volumes are enclosed in this small edition. With all the experience at his disposal I felt that Ken Cooper extracted enough of the necessary pros and cons of his double life and his prison families to prepare us for his redemptive story. But, oh, what he must have anguished over to narrow down and encapsulate the facts to just this miniscule account. God bless him, his family, victims of ALL crimes, and those who seek to help redeem the perpetrators who are prisoners of themselves, and usually a past, that refuses to set them free.

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Ken Cooper starts the book describing how empty his life is - to the point where he robs banks for excitement. Granted, he likes the money too, but mainly he is continuing a pattern of seeking thrills. He's pretty successful, both in his 'real job' and in his criminal enterprises until the inevitable happens and everything crashes down resulting in his wounding, arrest, and imprisonment. His descriptions of this and of prison life take up about 1/4 of the book. He then finds Christ, something he's resisted in the past. As Christian books go, this is interesting, and his actions, attitudes, and experiences do provide a lot of insight into how accepting Christ as Savior can change a person's life. It is just that much of the info is redundant and in some respects lifeless. Still, I was glad to have read the book, the writing is fine, and he has definitely had an interesting time since adopting this new way of behaving and thinking.

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