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Title: A well-written exploration of evil
Review: THE KILLER OF LOVE is a well-written exploration of evil and its consequences that I found to be a compelling read. The Hippie House, the terrifying Grid of Self-Knowledge, and bewildered teenagers like Jimmy Love - or their equivalents - were no doubt a familiar sub-stratum of life in university towns across this country in the seventies and eighties. Mr. Conley has managed to convey well the squalor and futility of a lifestyle centered around the endless quest for the next beer, the next party, the next fix. But it is the power of Piper and the mysterious ascendancy he holds over his followers that is the core of this novel. To believe that such charismatic evil actually exists, one has only to recall Charlie Manson and Jim Jones of an earlier time. Jimmy Love's struggle against the lure of Piper's amoral siren song makes this book worth the read.
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