Description: In this riveting book, Bergner takes readers inside a world where no journalist before him has ventured so deeply--into the Angola State Prison in Louisiana, on assignment to cover the prison's inmate rodeo for "Harper's."
Review Quotes: "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
--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