Meeting Evil: A Novel
Answering his door one morning, solidly middle-class John Felton finds a scruffy-looking man whose car is in need of a push. Responding helpfully despite his misgivings, John sets in motion a nightmarish series of events in which he becomes the unwitting accomplice of Richie Maranville, a psychotic criminal just released from a mental hospital. During their day-long crime spree, the two develop a curiously symbiotic relationship, with John ultimately discovering the dark, irrational side of himself he has long denied. While almost coming to believe Richie's assertion that they are psychic brothers, he makes a decision in the novel's final scene that lifts him forever above the "moral triviality" of his alter ego. This is a precisely rendered, excruciatingly suspenseful tale of psychological duality. For most collections.- Lawrence Rungren, Bedford Free P.L., Mass.Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.