MixedThe Wall Street JournalA sad, and sadly familiar, tale ... The pages of Life Sentence are filled with the outlaw escapades of a hard-to-differentiate cast of characters ... The author...tries mightily to flesh out his sketches of these dead-enders—to give us a fuller sense of their backgrounds and inner lives—but he doesn’t have much to work with. Most of his information about TTG seems to come from the cops who busted up the ring. The book’s later chapters feature extensive verbatim passages from the police department’s interview room.