Dirty John and Other True Stories of Outlaws and Outsiders

By: Christopher Goffard

Narrated by: George Newbern

A collection of newspaper stories by Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times reporter Christopher Goffard - including 'Dirty John', the basis for the hit podcast and the upcoming Bravo scripted series starring Connie Britton and Eric Bana.

Since its release in fall 2017, the Dirty John podcast - about a con man who terrorises a Southern California family - has been downloaded more than 20 million times and will soon premiere as a scripted drama on Bravo starring Connie Britton and Eric Bana. The story, which also ran as a print series in the Los Angeles Times, wasn’t unfamiliar terrain to its writer, Christopher Goffard. Over two decades at newspapers from Florida to California, Goffard has reported probingly on the shadowy, unseen corners of society. This audiobook gathers together for the first time 'Dirty John' and the rest of his very best work.

'The $40 Lawyer' provides an inside account of a young public defender’s rookie year in the legal trenches. 'Framed' offers an unblinking chronicle of suburban mayhem (and is currently being developed by Netflix as a film starring Julia Roberts). A man wrongly imprisoned for rape, train-riding runaways in love, a Syrian mother forced to leave her children in order to save them, a boy who grows up to become a cop as a way of honouring his murdered sister, another boy who struggles with the knowledge that his father is on death row: these stories reveal the complexities of human nature, showing people at both their most courageous and their most villainous.

Goffard shared in the Los Angeles Times’ Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2011 and has twice been a Pulitzer finalist for feature writing. This collection - a must-listen for fans of both true-crime and first-rate narrative nonfiction - underscores his reputation as one of today’s most original journalistic voices.

©2018 Chris Goffard (P)2018 Simon & Schuster UK