James "Jimmy" Keene is the real inspiration for "Black Bird" the soaring hit series on Apple TV

Black Bird is six-episode miniseries that premiered on July 8, 2022, on Apple TV+ this   is based on the book Black Bird  by James Jimmy" Keene, he is the inspiration and subject of the Black Bird mini series on Apple TV+.

A true story of a young athlete that had a great football field career and in the midst of this made a couple of wrong decision and ending up with a ten-year prison sentence. He was offered a very interesting mission to coax a confession from a serial killer (Larry Hall) and walk totally free.

Now this is where it starts to get interesting as the story unfolds it starts making so many of us to get the Heebie-jeebis, it takes us into a dark side of the world, the part that we read at times in our headlines and just shake our heads asking how can anyone do such a thing. Black Bird is taking us down the dark side of that rabbit hole. 

The actors are all captivating us, as they take on the characters with so much vigor in this dark series that they have us all wanting more and longing for the next episode like a kid on Christmas day waiting to open their gifts. Without giving to much away this miniseries  

The series is based on a true story based on the book Black Bird  /In With The Devil: A Fallen Hero, A Serial Killer, and A Dangerous Bargain for Redemption by James Keene. This is an excellent book to add to your library as well for your book club this is a well written book that gives you a peek into a serial killers morbid warped way of thinking and how one mans mission turns into a plight of redamation to right a wrong.