- Hardcover: 280 pages
- Publisher: Blood & Guts Press (December 1986)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0940941007
- ISBN-13: 978-0940941007
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Chilling and coldly compelling, Dec 11 2001
By F. J. Harvey "Cricket ,country music and a go... - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Silent Terror (Hardcover)
Real horror does not shout,it whispers.Dangerous people are seldom prone to rant and rave but go about their work in silence and with an outward appearance of normality. This strikes home forcibly with Ellroy's masterly but chilly bookMartin Plunkett is a serial killer and his narrative interspersed with newspaper clippings tells of his murderous and depraved odyssey in 70's America.Evil told in the accents and tone of one recounting a trip to the shopping mall,
Midway through the book Ellroy pulls a twist that throws the reader shrwedly off balance and keeps him that way throughout
I admired the book but without really liking it,maybe its that I like a moral centre to my crime writing and this is a massively amoral book
Just like the century that spawned it Ellroy's book is a fascinating,compelling thing but dont look for the easy resolution of empty comfort of the archetypal crime novel
Fiction as reality ,not as escapism
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
High-quality read from a very high-quality author, Mar 8 2000
By Luke Pebody - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Silent Terror (Hardcover)
James Ellroy's mastery for dark crime tales comes to the fore here with possibly his best book (certainly ranking alongside 'American Tabloid' for plot, and 'The Black Dahlia' for the characterisation of obsessives). The tale is the startling autobiography of a captured serial killer, Martin Michael Plunkett, from his childhood, through his career as a killer all across America, to his eventual capture by and mind-games with FBI Serial Killer Task Force agent Thomas Dusenberry.Plunkett is an articulate ruthless genius, and his narration, is such that it keeps you glued to the pages. As in much of Ellroy's work, all the characters, policeman, murderers, victims are painted with a dark brush. The result, as always, is a book which is almost impossible to put down.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent Ellroy -- back in print retitled, Aug 19 2000
By Mitchell Marks "mitch-4" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Silent Terror (Hardcover)
This very good early Ellroy has been reissued with the title "Killer on the Road", standard book number 038080896X .
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