Serving time for drug smuggling in the early 1980, this ex Vietnam War pilot was not the normal face of an incarcerated American. Learn of Hawkeye's experiences - good and bad, sad and humorous, dangerous and surprising - in the U.S. prison world. This quote from the book perhaps sums it up "Beeing locked up is the male equivalent of having PMS. It's an emotional roller coaster, and you can never predict on a day-to-day basis where the scary parts of the ride are going to be. One day it might be a confrontation with a guard ...
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Serving time for drug smuggling in the early 1980, this ex Vietnam War pilot was not the normal face of an incarcerated American. Learn of Hawkeye's experiences - good and bad, sad and humorous, dangerous and surprising - in the U.S. prison world. This quote from the book perhaps sums it up "Beeing locked up is the male equivalent of having PMS. It's an emotional roller coaster, and you can never predict on a day-to-day basis where the scary parts of the ride are going to be. One day it might be a confrontation with a guard, some other time is might be a bad-news letter from home, or on another day it might be a hostile inmate not liking the way you looked at him...."
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Very Good in Good jacket. Memoirs / Prison. 8vo. Signed 1st Edition (1980. ) Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo with 266 pages. Signed on the pre-title page, "For Rick Happy 40th, and even though smart men get smarter and tricky men get trickier in the joint, it is not a place where you want to spend any of your next 40 years. Pressing OMI K. Hawkeye Gross." The book is in very good condition with very slight shelf wear. Interior is clean and tight. The dust jacket is in good condition with some slight wear to edges. Pictures available upon request. "It's every man's worst nightmare: being removed from friends and family and confined to a world inhabited by rapists, armed robbers, gangsters and murderers. This is the story of a white, middle-class, college-educated flyboy-turned drug smuggler's stay inside a maximum-security prison in Florida. It captures the subtle emotional swings, fear, brutality and comedy of life behind bars." Red spine/Black text.