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While Ken Cooper lived with his wife and two children and worked as publicity director for a Christian college, he was leading a double life--as a felon.
With a vivid, you-are-there style, this former gentleman bank robber takes readers on a journey through years of armed robberies, the dramatic shooting that ended his career, the horrors of prison, and a soul ultimately finding peace. Without fear or embellishment, Cooper openly shares the darkest moments in his life. Yet in these moments he finally meets God and ends up becoming a bright light in a horrendous prison system. From adrenaline-pumping true-life crime to an experience of God's gentle love, readers won't be able to put down this gripping memoir of transformation and God's grace.
- Sales Rank: #688052 in eBooks
- Published on: 2009-08-01
- Released on: 2009-08-01
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Publishers Weekly
Convicted serial bank robber Cooper steals the show in the road to redemption genre for 2009 with this gripping narrative about his slide from petty theft to hostage-taking bank heists. Shot down mid-robbery, captured and sentenced in 1982 to 99 years, the author takes readers into the prison with grotesque scenes of predators and brutality. In prison, Cooper reflects on the double life that led to his incarceration; he worked for a Christian college, but also robbed banks to medicate the loss of his wife. Finding freedom, even in lock down, and forgiveness for his crimes, including his disregard for God and his stepson, becomes a quest that will have readers hanging on till the end of this surprisingly well-narrated book. The power of God's love and of prayer for enemies leads to the transformation of an entire cell block from heinous rape and sex games to a place of peace and love of neighbor. This new voice will be a runaway favorite for fans of the redemption narrative. (Aug.)
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Review
"Ken Cooper can tell a story.... He does an amazing job of drawing the reader into his thought process." -- Gina Burgess, Bloggernews.net
From the Back Cover
Husband. Father. Esteemed Community Man. Armed Bank Robber.
The unflinching story of one man's double life--and his ultimate transformation.
To his friends and family, Ken Cooper was the epitome of the perfect citizen: he was devoted to his wife and kids, loved by all, and had a high-profile job for a well-known Christian college.
Yet beneath this polished exterior lurked a man haunted by a broken past and fueled by a dangerous addiction. This man was known to the newspapers and public as the armed and mysterious "gentleman bank robber."
With raw authenticity, Ken bares all--from his tragic past to his time in one of Florida's most notorious prisons--in this unforgettable story of one man's miraculous redemption.
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28 of 29 people found the following review helpful.
Held Hostage by his story
By Patricia Barnard
I'm going to begin this on a more personal note than I normally do. I received this biography as an advance reader's copy, and I knew it was from a Christian publisher. Now, I grew up in a Christian household, I went to church every Sunday and from 8th grade to graduation I attended a tiny, private Christian school. I am tolerant, but sick to death of Christian testimony. Needless to say I was not thrilled about this book and I am now embarrassed to admit that.
The plot (if that is the right word) is fairly straight forward. Ken throws the reader in the deep end by starting with the bank robbery where it all went wrong, and then goes back to the beginning. The reader is taken at whirlwind pace through Ken's childhood, his first brushes with "joy juice", continued heartbreak that fed into his need for something more, the horrors of our prison system, and finally his discovery of God and his surrender to His will.
Ken Cooper's writing is no doubt engaging, the biography took me a day and a half to read, and though I was completely engaged, it wasn't until I came upon the story of Mr. Magoo that I found myself weeping on the couch where I read, that I realized this was so much more than an ex-convict's moment on a soap box. In those short 36 hours Ken had become a piece of myself. He won my heart through his honesty, and unapologetic love of Christ and I finished the book feeling like I was capable of anything with God behind me. Just as Ken felt a peace settling over his life, I felt a peace reading his words.
I'm unsure of how fair it is to rate a biography as you are not judging someone's story, but who they are and the life they have had, but Ken Cooper deserves five stars for all the above, despite the events that brought him to that fifth star. On the off chance that you ever see this Ken, I wish you all the best and at least for me, you will be "remembered for what you have written, not for what you have done".
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Compelling, worthy of reading
By Amazon Customer
The story is compelling, the content and faith based story quite interesting, and indicative of a culture which is so often neglected in the mass impact media.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
Transformative autobiography
By JenniferB
Held Hostage opens with a riveting scene. Ken Cooper - a serial bank robber - is robbing a bank. Juiced up on `joy juice' (the natural flood of adrenaline into his system), Cooper feels invincible. Little does he know that this will be his last armed robbery. Segueing from being shot in his last hoist, he flashes back into childhood, where Cooper recounts the rebellion and sin in his life that escalated from childhood thievery to teenaged joy-rides to full-blown bank robberies as an adult.
Cooper's memoirs recount his journey into the depths of adrenaline addiction and crime, followed by being sentenced to 99 years in prison for repeated armed robberies and hostage takings. While living an externally acceptable life - wife, children, and a career in publicity for a Christian college - Cooper's addiction to danger fueled a dark, hidden lie of crime. It is only after a life-changing encounter with God in prison that Cooper's life is deeply transformed, and his release effected with only three short years of his sentence being served.
The promises hinted at in the first-person action filled introductory scene go largely unfulfilled in the remainder of his memoirs. Like the authors of many autobiographical efforts, Cooper's writing isn't his strong suit. He effectively conveys the horrors of the prison system, the Christian support, friendships, and ministry opportunities he found while imprisoned, and the challenges to his new faith believably. Cooper's descriptions of prison life are intense enough to convey the dangers and challenges inherent in the situation, while shielding readers from the foul language and explicit vileness that he no doubt encountered there.
However, the sharing of his relationship with his first wife (who died of cancer), his second wife (divorced), third wife (post-conversion), and his children ring hollow on the written page. He fails to convey the more tender emotions of the heart when it comes to relating to his family, though he does have some success in describing the Christian brotherhood he finds amongst prison ministry workers, volunteers and fellow inmates.
In addition Cooper leaves many loose threads. Whatever happened to his partner in crime, Jonathan? Did he turn Cooper in, did he get away, or was he also convicted? Also, whatever became of Cooper's daughter Becky, and his stepson Lee? What is his relationship like with them? They seem to disappear following the first third of the book.
The areas where Cooper succeeds are in sharing God's wonderfully transforming power, His provision, and His protection. Cooper doesn't pull any punches when describing the dangers encountered in the prison system as he narrowly avoids rape and abuse while serving as a sanctifying and transforming presence in his cellblock. Witnessing God's miraculous power made manifest in ways both small and large during Cooper's time in prison sent chills down my spine on more than one occasion.
As a result of God's grace Ken Cooper is now serving inmates affected by addiction through The Ken Cooper Prison Ministry, proving that God does indeed work all things together for the good of those who trust in Him.
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