Perfect Victim: The True Story of the Girl in the Box
Some may find it unbelievable that a  20-year-old Oregon woman could be  enslaved by a  sexual sadist for seven years--that even after being able  to move freely  during the day, she would allow him to  lock her into a wooden box every night.  Perhaps  it's a minor  failing of this book that the authors do not elaborate on  the psychology that  made her such a "perfect victim."  In  other respects, though, the story is well  told, with an impressive accumulation of details: the woman's capture, the tortures she  endured, the brainwashing techniques, the fiendish contraptions her captor constructed,  the slave contract he made her sign, and the increasingly strained relations within the  peculiar family that included master, slave, wife, and child, all inside a single-wide  trailer.  As well-known attorney and authorVincent Bugliosiwrites, "A gripping and disturbing story of the secret life of apparently normal  people.  At once, horrific and engrossing."