finkel, michael

Michael Finkel recalls how, shortly after he was fired from New York Times Magazine, he found out that a suspected murderer on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List had fled to Mexico and taken on his identity. After the man, Christian Longo, was taken into custody, Michael Finkel was the only reporter that he agreed to talk to. Finkel describes his attempts to uncover the truth about really happened to the family Longo was accused of killing.

Professional skier and sports columnist Michael Finkel shares stories of his ten years of skiing experiences across six continents, and dozens of countries, telling of skiing Mount Killimanjaro, flying off an Olympic ski jump, and making a first-ever run down an remote Alaskan peak.

The author tells the true story of Christian Michael Longo, his arrest for murdering his family, and how he fled to Mexico and assumed Michael Finkel's identity; and relates his own firing from the New York Times magazine.