Title: Unperson
Description: ""The CIA's out to get me!" is every paranoiac's cry, yet Denis Lehane is no madman. He was an Irish award-winning journalist. Yet, in 1984, he refused to work undercover for the CIA and MI5 who, in revenge, spread rumours that he was insane, an alcoholic and a serial rapist who had tried to murder his two girlfriends. Certified insane in London and later in Dublin, he was put away in an asylum for life. When a television reporter rang Lehane, in his captors' hearing, to say that CNN were making a major documentary about him, he was hastily released, the programme cancelled and its maker sacked from the network." "Denied any trial, Ireland deported its own citizen, dumping him in London. He was to live on the streets, in cardboard boxes, until he was arrested on a trumped-up charge of terrorism, forbidden to choose any lawyers, tried in his absence and condemned to a psychiatric prison. Here he was tortured, beaten and left disabled, in lifelong pain, with a broken spine, until a hereditary Peer was to spring him free." "Denis Lehane will never recover, yet slowly, painfully and bravely, he has spent long years writing this book. If anyone thought that such events described within could not happen here, read this powerful, horrifying, yet profoundly moving account. Weep, and think again."--Jacket.
Subjects: Asylums, Journalists, Biography
Places: Dublin, Ireland
People: Denis Lehane (1949-)