He also wrote a biography of bank robber, Edwin Alonzo Boyd. In The Black Donnellys, his style is colourful and sometimes melodramatic as in the following example. "James Donnelly screamed and flew backwards, his chest a mass of gaping holes. He collapsed in the doorway, gurgling blood and gasping in pain." It is unlikely that Donnelly's chest was full of holes, but readers will certainly understand that a violent act was committed, and they will probably enjoy the journalistic hype.