MixedThe New York Times Book Review\"Rather than moving on to the outcome of the case, Man in the Mirror diverts. Through intensive interviews with Neely’s relatives and a friend of his, Giridharadas shows how the vortex of poverty dragged Neely’s life down to Hadean depths ... The remarkable scope of this book is demonstrated in a series of involving portraits ... This is an exhaustively reported book by a ferociously talented writer. But again and again, the author’s clear allegiance to Neely undermines the supposedly evenhanded reporting he claims in an author’s note as his goal, especially once he gets to the trial ... as both a prosecutor and a defense lawyer, I can say only that the rulings Giridharadas found so unfair conform to the rules of evidence as I have long understood them.\
