True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa

The true story of a disgraced journalist, the accused murderer who stole his identity, and their complex friendship—now a major motion picture.

In 2001, Mike Finkel was on top of the world: young, talented, and recently promoted to a plum job at the New York Times Magazine. Then he made an irremediable slip: Under pressure to keep producing blockbuster stories, he fabricated parts of an article. Caught and excommunicated from the Times, he retreated to his home in Montana, swearing off any...