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Novelist John Kiriamiti’s bestseller ‘My Life in Crime’ made into a movie

John Kiriamiti and his book My Life in Crime

John Kiriamiti, an armed robber turned writer, gave Kenya arguably the greatest selling novel.

Kiriamiti wrote the book My Life in Crime while doing time at Naivasha Maximum Security Prison for a series of bank robberies in the 1960s and 1970s Kenya.

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