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Title: May be his best book;
Review: many reviewers have said so. The book is about two sociopathic mass murderers interacting with each other. The first third is about what they do and think. Just when I thought the top of my head was going to come off, focus shifts to detectives who are trying to put the crazies behind bars--good instinct on Wambaugh's part. The book reads like a "Dragnet" script--"just the facts, Ma'am, just the facts"--but in a curious style: "Dragnet" scripted by Phillip Roth or Terry Southern. The eye for detail that Waumbaugh ascribes to one character is his own, and a sharp eye it is, too. References to literature show he's done his reading. Reading this book is like sliding down a razorblade; there's blood all over, but you don't feel a thing.
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