9009 (Heathen Edition)

<p><strong style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>James Hopper</strong><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> (1876-1956) was an American footballer journalist and author penning some 450 short stories and six novels one of which he co-authored with fellow journalist and author </span><strong style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Frederick Ritchie Bechdolt</strong><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> (1874-1950). Inspired by true events their unsentimental fact-story tells of John Collins </span><strong style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)><em>9009</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> a convict fully deserving of his sentence who enters prison with the sincere hope that he can make good. What he discovers however is a wholly corrupt system hell-bent on breaking him little by little injustice by injustice until he erupts with a calculated bloodthirsty vengeance.</span></p>