Like a thief's dream

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"Like a Thief's Dream, the first full-length nonfiction book from photographer and filmmaker Danny Lyon, presents the story of James Ray Renton—thief, counterfeiter, and bank robber—who became one of Americas Ten Most Wanted Men when he was charged with murdering a young Arkansas policeman in 1976, and then one of the Fifteen Most Wanted after a daring prison escape.
This book is the result of a remarkable relationship between a thief and a journalist, a relationship that began when Lyon met Renton in the Texas prisons and continued until Renton's death almost thirty years later. While in solitary confinement, Renton wrote a sixty-page account of his escape, sent in a series of letters to Lyon. After Renton died, Lyon began to follow an amazing paper trail.
Like a Thief's Dream contains the first credible account of what happened that night in the Arkansas woods, and proves that one of the men convicted, Harold "Dinker" Cassell, is almost certainly innocent. With the help of Cassell, who remains in prison after twenty-seven years, and the letters and writings of Renton, Lyon has created a stunningly realistic picture of life inside the maximum-security units of Kansas, Texas, and Arkansas during the seventies and eighties.
Using the voices of characters like Butch Jones, who was executed by lethal injection, the burglar Dinker Cassell, and the police and FBI men that hunted down and captured Renton (twice), Lyon tells a tale of robbery and murder, loyalty and betrayal, justice and injustice, using historical documents to create a powerful sense of realism. The book is illustrated with documentary photographs made and collected by the author."