Running With Bonnie And Clyde: The Ten Fast Years Of Ralph Fults

Ralph Fults was only nineteen when he first met Clyde Barrow. Running with Bonnie and Clyde is the gripping account of Fults's experiences between the years 1925 and 1935 and his involvement with the Barrow gang, particularly the notorious Bonnie and Clyde.

As an adolescent, Fults escaped juvenile institutions and jails, was shot by police, and was brutalized by prison guards. He later reformed himself, believing the only reason he was spared was to reveal the darkest aspects of his past -- and in so doing expose the circumstances that propel youth into crime.

John Neal Phillips relies primarily on Fults's testimony, augmenting his narrative with scores of eyewitness interviews and material from police files, court documents, and contemporary news accounts, and incorporates new information for this paperback edition.