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A grudge & a pistol

We all know the story: madman guns down rock legend John Lennon. But in this true-crime retelling of that fateful night in the New York summer of 1980, best-selling author James Patterson artfully manages to get inside the head of Mark Chapman, the man who casually flew from Hawaii nursing a grudge and a pistol stowed in his luggage with the clear intention of killing his hero.

It wasn’t a spur-of-the-moment decision. Chapman knew where Lennon lived. He cased the joint. There were always fans outside the Dakota apartment building clambering for a glimpse. He was just another “nowhere

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