God of the Rodeo: The Quest for Redemption in Louisiana's Angola Prison - Softcover

"A fascinating descent into the hell of one of America's most notorious prisons, God of the Rodeo offers a surprising and humane portrait of the men trapped in a horror beyond imagining."
--JOHN BERENDT
Author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

"A STORY OF SUCH ELOQUENCE AND BRUTALITY THAT, FROM TIME TO TIME, I SIMPLY HAD TO PUT THE BOOK DOWN AND THINK ABOUT WHAT I'D JUST READ. MAGNIFICENT!"
--SEBASTIAN JUNGER
Author of The Perfect Storm

"Chilling and heartbreaking . . . A vivid, ambitious, and ferociously reported book that reads like a novel . . . Even people who know something about prison rodeos will find it hard not to be caught up in the richly etched lives he discovers behind the ghoulish pageantry. . . . Bergner's rich, probing and compassionate book is a rare look at both the physical and spiritual world on the other side of the bars. . . . An eloquent and valuable book."
--The New York Times Book Review

"BERGNER'S PROSE IS POWERFUL, AT ONCE JOURNALISTIC AND PERSONAL. HE ROMANTICIZES NEITHER THE PRISONERS NOR THEIR KEEPERS."
--USA Today

"ASTONISHING . . . REMARKABLE . . . BREATHLESS STORYTELLING."
--The San Diego Union-Tribune

"COMPELLING . . . A HARROWING YET HUMANE BOOK."
--The New York Times

"ONE OF THE MOST FASCINATING BOOKS PUBLISHED IN YEARS."
--LARRY KING

Traces a year in the lives of six convicts at Louisiana's most fearsome maximum security prison, revealing both the brutality of their lives and the human emotions that surface as they compete in the annual prison rodeo. Reprint.