Green River Rising

by Tim Willocks

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This prison life in it's fullest sense, no sissy's should even try and read this. Willocks characters are alive, and some will endear themselves to you and some will scare you to death. If you ever wondered what it was like to be in prison, this is your book, if you dare.

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A jail warden's experiment with ancient correctional theories leads to an uprising in a Texas penitentiary. The other protagonists are a wrongly convicted surgeon and a woman forensic psychiatrist studying aids. She and the surgeon have a romance.

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