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I Was An Unsolved Mystery: An American Fugitive Story

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There is something that attracts most of us about a true story. This story is better than most. Both romantic, and dark, Lions takes you through an almost unbelievable journey that keeps your eyes glued to the pages. I was shocked at the way he escaped the hand of the law, and how the law finally tracked him down. This is a must read book!

T.Lion has his second hit book this year.Chelan was fabulous and now Unsolved. When will this government figure out the "wharehousing" of peaceful citizens in the name of marijuana is a very bad joke !!! Draconian sentencing for "herb" people should END ! Lion's unrelenting fight for freedom and fairness can finally be heard. Please take a special note how our government rewards violent criminals to get "their" man. Unsolved could be the new bible of the underground. A GREAT true story!

Lion has it right: marijuana users growers and dealers are not threats to society. The decision to use pot should be a moral rather than a legal one. Lion began to act on these ideas in the early seventies. Eventually his actions forced him underground, broke up his family, and landed him in the slammer. An amazing story.

The envisioned reality is put into words by a master. You'll love to follow his trail page by page. Don't miss making this novel a permanent part of your library.

What a read! Nothing like the newspaper-article style true crimes I'm uccustomed to wading through. In the end the author lies to the court like Clinton to protect others, but unlike the prez...gets 20 years for pot! Lion didn't plot to kill the witnesses like his associates, he didn't desert his wife, and he... Well, just read the book. You won't be disappointed.

Thomas Lion's autobiographical book, "I was an Unsolved Mystery," immediately drops the reader into the unfamiliar, underground world of a fugitive. We watch Lion as he naively steps into this all-consuming existence. We see the mind-work and quick thinking essential for him to keep a wife, contact with family, money, and most vital, freedom. We witness his surface façades and chronic inner-battles with the decisions he makes in hopes of keeping his life whole. We are forced to question the War on Drugs and the laws surrounding this cause.

Lion's life on-the-run is narrated openly and honestly. The book begins with an intensity that is maintained throughout. I thoroughly enjoyed and recommend this story and am looking forward to reading Lion's other book, "Chelan."

I was attracted to Tom Lion's absorbing memoir by it's cover, with it's stark image of handcuffs and pot money: here we have constant pressure to build more prisons to incarcerate drug offenders, even as millions of people in state after state vote to legitimize medicinal use of marijuana. Crazy. Tom Lion's I Was an Unsolved Mystery is a rattling good real-life story about his astonishing and surreal life as a fugitive from the American drug war and the massive resources of the Federal Government used to hunt him down and put him away in a Federal penitentiary for more than six years. It's heartening to see how this born-again writer paid his dues and refuses to surrender his calling and his passionate love of life.

Thomas Lion has opened the door for all of us to question as well as examine our governments role on the war on drugs. He tells with relish how he beat the system as a fugitive and at the same time be candid in the personal cost it exacted in his relationships with his wife and friends. I am personally glad he made it through "the system" with objectivity and insight. Being a fugitive can be an imprisoning experience with much pain and suffering. Yet he became a better person for this experience.

As a nonfiction lover, I found Mr. Lion's memoir extremely moving. Not only did he put a pulsating, human heart behind the media image-mug-shot of an American fugitive, but he managed to do it in a way that moved the story and his reader marvelously forward with a sincere message of hope and faith in our dreams. True Crime, Biography, nonfiction readers...I highly recommend it to you all!

How do Drug Dealers get started? How much money is really involved? Is it dangerous? Are Dealers all "Druggies" (doing the drugs). Does selling/smoking pot lead to selling/doing other drugs? How do they learn about false I.D.s, money laundering and who to trust? Can money truly buy anything? Thomas answers the questions we all have. He tells a true story without boring you with a biography or attempting to push a philosophy. A "Rags to Riches" true story about a kid from a small city that makes a million and travels the world. BUT... It is not all fun & games, nor luck (good or bad) that takes Thomas from here to there. The combination of events, people and politics all intermingle to give his life a wild ride that we can follow and sometimes feel. It is easy for readers to become one of Thomas's "fugitive friends" and choose your next move. The stakes are high as well as the consequences. We make it through it all and have only one question left... What happens to Thomas Lion next?