Review: Conduit Delivers: Moral Insanity, or, Unimaginable, Unspeakable Horror
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 31, 2014
This is an intriguing, well conceived story that brings to mindThe Silence of the Lambs. Mind? Author Angie Martin cleverly asks: "How do you hide from a killer when he's in your mind?" Yes, this is a book about paranormal mind games, and a very stong mind is required to follow the twists and turns in this book to the very surprising end. As I was reading, I wondered to myself what makes psycopathic killers tick. For me, it's an unimaginable, unspeakable horror. Here's what I found out:(Quote) "I'm the most cold-blooded sonofabitch you'll ever meet," said Ted Bundy. "I just liked to kill, I wanted to kill." The hallmark of the psychopath is the inability to recognize others as worthy of compassion. Victims are dehumanized, flattened into worthless objects in the murderer's mind. John Gacy, never showing an ounce of remorse, called his victims "worthless little queers and punks," while the "Yorkshire Ripper" Peter Sutcliffe brashly declared that he was "cleaning up the streets" of the human trash.In the 19th century, psychopathology was considered to be "moral insanity". Today it is commonly known as "antisocial personality disorder" or "sociopathology." Current experts believe that sociopaths are an unfortunate fusion of interpersonal, biological and sociocultural disasters." Source: "What Makes Serial Killers Tick?" by Shirley Lynn Scott (Criminal Library) In sum, if the psycopathic killer is your genre, Angie Martin's, "Conduit", will deliver all that you have come to expect from this genre. Highly recommended.Reviewed by Thomas Jerome BakerAuthor ofLooking For Catarina: A Love Story From Santiago de Chile to Florence, Italy