Finished 'Green River Rising' by Tim Willocks. Pretty good story of a Texas max. sec. prison riot. Plot is cinematic, written well enough but it falls a bit apart with the characters. Our protagonist is a falsely incarcerated surgeon...right. The leader of the Blacks is a falsely incarcerated former boxing champ...right. The leader of the Whites is a POS lifer...ok, that reads true. And dotted throughout the book are various other cartoon-like actors, like the outsize killer who was befriended by our hero and later performs superhuman feats to allow the narrative to move forward. I think the book's strength and weakness is that the author is a Doctor (shrink) and he over-pronounces these archetypes in order to give us too much psychiatric info-dump. I get that prison is a good medium for examining man and his nature, but sometimes telling a story involves not lecturing. Anyway, while reading it I kept think of Eddie Bunker's two books, 'No Beast so Fierce' and 'The Animal Factory' - now, those are pretty good prison/crime books. Bunker was not only a career criminal but appeared in movies, notably Mr. Blue in Reservoir Dogs, so he's got all sorts of bona fides. I'd recommend his two books before this one.