title: Anatomy of a Massacre
author: Elinor Karpf
description: The most chilling part of any well-written true crime book is the 20-20 hindsight that clearly reveals the developments that led to the crime-in this case, driving a truck into a Texas cafeteria, then shooting 56 people, killing 23 of them. Georges Hennard Jr. was a handsome psychopath who failed at his careers in the navy and merchant marine, thought the police and FBI were following him, and believed women banded together and plotted against him and whose obsession with a family in his neighborhood reflected his growing instability. The authors' backgrounds in writing for TV and movies is obvious in the way the story flows. Images are graphic without being sensational, and the writing is filled with enough detail to make victims, police, and perpetrator very real. An excellent postmortem on the worst mass killing in this country's history.<br /><i>Christine Moesch, Buffalo &amp; Erie Cty. P.L., N.Y.</i><br />Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  If the taking of the city had been a massacre, the sack that had followed had
  been a man-made Hell. He had gone down, along with Harkaman, while the
  fighting, if it could be so called, was still going on. Harkaman had suggested
  that the men ought to see him moving about among them; for his own part, he
  had felt a compulsion to share their guilt.
  
  
  He and Sir Paytrik Morland had been on foot together in one of the big hollow
  buildings that had stood since Khepera had been a Member Republic of the
  Terran Federation. The air was acrid with smoke, powder smoke and the smoke of
  burning. It was surprising, how much would burn, in this city of concrete and
  vitrified stone. It was surprising, too, how well-kept everything was, at
  least on the ground level. These people had taken pride in their city.
  
  
  They found themselves alone, in a great empty hallway; the noise and horror of
  the sack had moved away from them, or they from it, and then, when they
  entered a side hall,