In the Name of the Son: The Gerry Conlon Story
Richard O'Rawe
In the Name of the Son
London, 19 October1989. 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? Followinghis release, Conlon received close to one million pounds from government compensation, movie and book deals; he ran in the same circles asJohnny 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 hisrelease was the awful descent into addiction, isolation andself-loathing.
But this is a book about the resilience of thehuman spirit. What emerges from the darkness and the addiction is GerryConlon the pacifist; the man who came to be recognised around the worldas a campaigner against miscarriages of justice. In the Name of the Sonalso reveals damning new evidence of statement tampering by theauthorities which would’ve cleared Conlon at the initial trial.
Life-long friend, Richard O’Rawe, has written a powerful and candid story ofGerry Conlon’s extraordinary life following his years of brutalincarceration at the hands of the British justice system.
London, 19 October1989. 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? Followinghis release, Conlon received close to one million pounds from government compensation, movie and book deals; he ran in the same circles asJohnny 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 hisrelease was the awful descent into addiction, isolation andself-loathing.
But this is a book about the resilience of thehuman spirit. What emerges from the darkness and the addiction is GerryConlon the pacifist; the man who came to be recognised around the worldas a campaigner against miscarriages of justice. In the Name of the Sonalso reveals damning new evidence of statement tampering by theauthorities which would’ve cleared Conlon at the initial trial.
Life-long friend, Richard O’Rawe, has written a powerful and candid story ofGerry Conlon’s extraordinary life following his years of brutalincarceration at the hands of the British justice system.
Năm:
2017
Ngôn ngữ:
english
ISBN 10:
1785371401
ISBN 13:
9781785371400
File:
MOBI , 7.28 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2017
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