Blackburn : a novel

Blackburn is a serial killer. But, like the rest of us, he confronts the same hypocrisies and frustrations of the world and, unable to help himself, or at the mercy of circumstance, he crosses a dangerous threshold--and he kills. In this novel, we meet many of his twenty-one victims: law enforcers, writers, adulterers, auto mechanics, and other liars. And each crime reveals another side of his psyche . . . and his disturbing rationale for murder. Jimmy Blackburn Grows Up In The Midwest Believing The Things That Adults Tell Him. He Questions His Teachers And They Lie To Him. He Questions His Parents And His Father Beats Him. He Questions The World And It Hurts Him. And So Jimmy Blackburn Becomes A Killer. In This Novel We Meet Many Of Blackburn's Twenty-one Victims. They Include Law Enforcers, Writers, Adulterers, Auto Mechanics, And Other Liars. This Is An Exceptional Novel, At Once Riotously Funny And Searingly Potent: A Vision Of America Through The Eyes Of The Central Bogeyman Of Our Culture.--publisher. Bradley Denton. Blackburn was surprised that it was so easy.