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Best-selling thriller author James Patterson has thoroughly researched the tragic story of NFL star Aaron Hernandez, who took his own life while serving time in jail for the murder of his friend, believed to have been done to prevent him telling Hernandez's fiancee about his bisexuality. Sensationally, Hernandez left a suicide note to his gay prison lover as well as to his fiancee and child.
Aaron Hernandez was a college football All-American who became the youngest player in the NFL and later reached the Super Bowl. He was a star on the league-dominant New England Patriots, who extended his contract for a record $40 million. Hernandez’s every move as a professional athlete played out in the headlines, yet he led a secret life – one that ended in a maximum-security prison. What drove him to go so wrong, so fast?
Hernandez was the best athlete Connecticut’s Bristol Central High had ever produced. But by the time he arrived at University of Florida, he was already courting trouble. As his fame grew and he joined the NFL, trouble followed him. Between the summers of 2012 and 2013, Hernandez was linked to a series of violent incidents culminating in the death of Odin Lloyd, a semi-pro American football player who dated the sister of Hernandez’s fiancée; a murder allegedly implicated in revelations of his bisexuality.
''All-American Murder'' is the first book to fully investigate the shocking story of Aaron Hernandez – from his meteoric rise in the world of American football to his first-degree murder conviction, his gay lover in prison and the mystery of his own untimely death. Drawing on original, in-depth reporting, this is an explosive account of a life cut short in the dark shadow of fame.
Author: James Patterson
Paperback, 400 Pages, Orig. Published 2018. This Edition Publ. January 2019