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How I Helped O.J. Get Away With Murder: The Shocking Inside Story of Violence, Loyalty, Regret, and Remorse | 
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Author: Mike Gilbert
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 12993
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 5.9 x 0.9
ISBN: 1596985518
Dewey Decimal Number: 364.15230979494
EAN: 9781596985513
ASIN: 1596985518
Publication Date: May 12, 2008
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I could not put this book down! July 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I began reading this book the minute I grabbed it out of the mailbox and simply could not stop reading until the very last page. And this is from a person who works a graveyard shift and really needed to be snoozing away before noon. Need I say more? Well, yes, I do...this book answered so many questions and presented a perspective that I had not previously considered. Buy this book; you will not regret it! It is an excellent read and very well written.
Insightful but no new evidence July 14, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I read the book last night. I was pretty skeptical going into it because I believed the main motivation had to be money even though the proceeds go to charity. Proceeds still means "after" expenses.
Some parts were really well told. Other parts read pretty dry "I said this, he said that, we went to this place". . . But overall I believed that he truly wanted to make ammends, better late than never. He makes no apologies for himself. He doesn't pretend he's completely changed. Scattered throughout he mentions autographed items and souvenirs like OJ's suit when he was acquitted, things he still has kept. I felt he was trying to authenticate them in the book so he could make more money off them later. He backed a murderer as long as he did for the the hope of a bigger payoff later on. But it didn't happen. They underestimated the public at large accepting his acquittal. OJ eventually used him up too.
I have to agree with the other reviewer that he tried to puff up his own importance as a player. I hardly think Shapiro, Bailey and Cochran were looking to him for their defense strategy. Still it feels honest.
I was surprised he praised Furhman as being the best cop on the case, the only one to find real evidence.
When he mentions the calls, the accusations and threats he still receives, he says his only response to them would be, "you're right."
So he could just be trying to make money off being on the other end of it now. Heck, probably is. But it's worth the read.
 True Confessions from Someone Peripherally Involved July 10, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I have to admit having very mixed emotions while reading this book. On the one hand, the author seems sincere in his apology and his efforts to be rid of Simpson and his friends, yet at the same time, it has been fourteen long years that he has let elapse before his conscience managed to bubble to the surface. It really makes me wonder what took him so long to wake up.
The book is written in a casual style that can be expected for this type book and contains the details that would be expected to be known by a second tier player. (Although he tries to puff up his importance, I doubt he ever did amount to much more than second tier level.) That said, some questions are answered and this is another piece to the puzzle, but there are still a number of questions left. And, I doubt we will ever truly know the answers to the question.
A good book if you are curious, or a collector of the "entire set" of OJ murder books...otherwise I would recommend going to the library. You won't miss anything earth shattering by waiting.
The too late information July 3, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Mr. Gilbert must have had an extreme difficulty of living with himself and his former wife. If one is in a business for the love of the man he is representing, how is one able to perform as part of the defense of OJ and make bucks for him while he is in jail? According to his words, Johnny Cochran and the crew did not win the case, Mike Gilbert did based on his advice that OJ not take his arthritis medicine so his hand would swell up. Where was the prosecution's medical expert and knowledge of what not taking a medicine could do to his hand based on his medical condition? Where was Marcus Allen as a character witness or even a to what extent did his involvement with Mike Gilbert and OJ go? A whole host of foul-ups here! Knowing of a Nicole and Marcus Allen dalliance or two that caused OJ to see red and refusing to admit to himself the truism of all that he knew. Mr. Gilbert's mantra was his belief that his hero couldn't have killed Nicole. He even admits that he didn't know very much about Nicole or her needs or desires. He buried himself in his belief that OJ was a human god. After reading this, I now know why OJ hasn't been able to find the killer. OJ sure wasn't going to admit to wrong doing when it is an ugly dream to him and he feels he, as a person, is to be worshipped.
 Insightful read for anyone who wants to finally know the truth July 1, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I very much enjoyed this book. I think finally we get to the truth. Well as close to the truth we're ever gonna get, un less OJ decides to do the decent think and confess. Its a very honest book from Mike Gilbert, who is honest about his regrets and mistakes. Once I started reading I could'nt stop. Its amazing how did OJ get away with it??
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