num_pages: 255
description: In the summer of 1998 Walter Kirn--then a young novelist struggling with fatherhood and a dissolving marriage--set out on a peculiar fateful errand: to personally deliver a crippled hunting dog from an animal shelter in Montana to the New York apartment of one Clark Rockefeller a secretive young banker and art collector. Thus began a fifteen-year relationship that drew Kirn deep into the fun-house world of an outlandish eccentric son of privilege who one day would be shockingly unmasked as a brazen serial impostor and brutal double-murderer. Kirn's one-of-a-kind story already excerpted in The New Yorker of being duped by a real-life Mr. Ripley takes us on a bizarre and haunting journey from the posh private club rooms of Manhattan to the hard-boiled courtrooms and prisons of Los Angeles. In Blood Will Out Kirn lays bare a Dreiseresque tale of class self-invention and the great American con.
language: English
title: Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade
publisher: Liveright