Killer on the Road
James Ellroy's Killer on the Road ![[amazon]](http://molelog.molehill.org/blog/amzn-y12.png){kind=small}
is an interesting diversion from Ellroy's previous narrative techniques; rather than a straightforward 3rd person narrative or a stream-of-consciousness transcript, this book is structured as the autobiography of the main character -- a brutal serial killer.
Books that pull this off well, that put the reader in the mind of a madman, are scarier than ones that show the same events externally, and Ellroy does it well. Scarily well.
If I wake up some day to a headline that says that Ellroy and Jim Thompson had been arrested and every open homicide case in the US were now closed, the only reason I'd be surprised is that Thompson died in 1977.
2003-06-12 19:27:00 | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) | CopyrightCartel::Books
