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- Title
- By Reason Insanity
- Author
- Shane Stevens
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Publication year
- 1979
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0671240587
- ISBN 13
- 9780671240585
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 1 pound
Thomas Bishop was 25 when he escaped from an institution for the criminally insane. Behind him was a gro tesque history of pain, murder and rage. Ahead lay a path of horrifying vengeance that would trigger the most intense ma nhunt. '
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Back in the '70s, when the term "serial killer" wasn't yet popular, Shane Stevens wrote this long, exquisitely detailed novel about a psychopathic murderer. Thomas Bishop escapes from an insane asylum at age 25 and begins what he fully intends to be a historic career as a multiple murderer. He is meticulous, intelligent, conscious of what he is doing, and utterly amoral. And we are inside his head, every step of the way--a welcome approach compared to contemporary works that focus on a detective or reporter protagonist. The New York Times called it "violent realism . . . extremely effective."
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