Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore

Shot in the Heart

Mikal Gilmore

416 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction crime memoir true crime dark slow-paced

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Gary Gilmore, the infamous murderer immortalized by Norman Mailer in The Executioner's Song, campaigned for his own death and was executed by firing squad in 1977. Writer Mikal Gilmore is his younger brother. In Shot in the Heart, he tells the stu...

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tense 40%
challenging 20%
mysterious 20%

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slow 40%

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