Grab the Devil's Tail - Christensen, Bev; Zielke, Laura
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This is a first-person account of Patrick Michael Mooney's life of crime and his failed attempts to redeem himself by becoming a police informant. With unusual honesty and a quirky sense of humour he relates how his father's harshness and his teenaged rebelliousness led him into heavy drug use and bizarre drug-induced behaviour. A judge sends his to a Massachusetts psychiatric assessment unit from which he escapes repeatedly until he is placed in a secure ward housing seriously psychotic patients. His heavy drug use and drug results in him being confine in some of the harshest prisons in the…mehr

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This is a first-person account of Patrick Michael Mooney's life of crime and his failed attempts to redeem himself by becoming a police informant. With unusual honesty and a quirky sense of humour he relates how his father's harshness and his teenaged rebelliousness led him into heavy drug use and bizarre drug-induced behaviour. A judge sends his to a Massachusetts psychiatric assessment unit from which he escapes repeatedly until he is placed in a secure ward housing seriously psychotic patients. His heavy drug use and drug results in him being confine in some of the harshest prisons in the U.S. and Canada. His romance with a beautiful model ends tragically when a Toronto Metro policeman shoots her 'accidentally'. Upon his release Patrick launches into a crime spree that ends with him being charged with multiple crimes. He skips bail and hides in a remote work camp north-eastern British Columbia. He is recaptured and while awaiting a court hearing in Calgary he masterminds a daring escape, steals a car and begins a cross-Canada crime spree with an increasingly dangerous fellow escapee. They are recaptured and both sent to Dorchester Penitentiary where his dangerous fellow escapee plots to have him killed. Upon his release from prison he finds it difficult to adjust to life outside prison until he undertakes dangerous assignments as a police informant. His story ends with him being pursued by those seeking to claim contract money from the same criminals that he worked to put into prison.
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Autorenporträt
Having lived and worked in northern BC for more than seventy years, in her creation of Too Soon Old, Bev Christensen is writing about what she knows. Bev was a reporter for a daily newspaper in Prince George, BC for more than twenty-three years and she is the author or co-author of several other books including: Prince George Rivers, Railways and Timber, Grab the Devil's Tail, as well as Too Good To Be True, which was shortlisted for the Huber Evans Non-Fiction B.C. Book Prize. Although Too Soon Old is a fictional account, she intends it as a tribute to those hard-working, community-minded pioneers who peopled much of her life and many of her memories. Bev now lives in Victoria, BC near her youngest daughter.