The book is based on a true story about the I-10 bandit who committed 26 armed bank robberies before getting caught then sentenced to 34 and one half years where he spent the next 29 years in some of the worst federal penitentiary's across the United States. As he describes his emotions before during and after he walks you through the line he crossed that most of us would never consider crossing. The violence he experienced in all faze's of the federal prison system trapped in a love affair he managed to allude the FBI tossing aside a professional career all for the sole purpose to spend more time with his children after a heartbreaking divorce. His experience will shock you as he describes his feelings while committing these Robbies as well as trying to survive such a long sentence to make it home alive to his family once again.