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In his basic works of true criminal offense, Harry MacLean evaluated the dark side of America and its own fascination with violence. In The Delight of Killing, he builds upon this expert knowledge to make a riveting literary thriller - a thrilling blend of love history, mystery, psychological suspense, and deep breathing on human nature and the roots of violence. This fever wish begins on the stormy fall night at a lake house in the north woods of Minnesota, where we could released to a college or university professor who a couple of years earlier wrote a novel in which he justified a gruesome campus murder under the nihilistic theory that there is no right or wrong, no moral center to man's activity. The writer returns to the lake house where he had spent his child years summers and locks himself in the attic, intention on writing the ultimate history of his life. Participating in on a continuing loop in his mind are key moments in his former: his child years in small-town Iowa, where he and his closest friend befriended a local drifter; his child years on the lake where one summer season a local guy drowned in a surprise; and the central fixation of his erotic meeting with a girl on the train bound for Chicago when he was just 15. All of these threads weave along as the writer tries to piece together the large number of secrets and serves of violence that make up one individuals life. Reminiscent of the task of noir grasp Derek Raymond and John Banville's The Sea, with some David Lynch. The Delight of Killing, using its haunting vocabulary and stunning images, is both a fascinating check out the fugue state of one man's mind and a searing, philosophical look at violence and its own effect on our individuals condition. With its elegant framework, multiple storylines, and edge-of-your-seat suspense, the book is the tour-de-force fiction debut by one of America's premier freelance writers of true criminal offense.
