The book is long but reading is exciting and enjoyable. A multitude of characters; fictitious and real as p.ex.Caryl Chessman, sentenced to death and executed after 12 years in the death row. The crazed killer is convinced that Chessman was his père.Après several years in an asylum / he killed his mother when he was 10, a true "creative" in this cold-blooded psychopath / he escaped in the company of another interné.On found the disfigured body of one of évadés.Mais is - what? Bishop or Mungo, his companion of escape? The killer travels extensively throughout the USA, leaving behind them savagely mutilated bodies of several women he knows their way in real life with programs or detective films seen on TV - no problems to obtain the true false papers , blend in masse.Les killings continue - the police are powerless. A politician with long teeth gets involved, the media go wild, even the underworld is on the heels of this vicious killer and very intelligent. A journalist, Adam Kenton, also sets out to find the killer. Well, I do not reveals various investigations protagonistes.C'est to you to discover them. The book is very dense and paints a striking portrait of the United States of the 60s and 70s. Enjoy reading!