Showing Killer on the Road by James Ellroy

Paperback. Pub Date: 1999 Pages: 272 Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Martin Michael Plunkett is a product of his times - the possessor of a genius Intellect a pitiless Soul of the ushed Steel. And a heart of Blackest evil. With criminal tendencies forged in the fires of LA's Charles Manson hysteria. he comes to the bay city of San Francisco - and submits to savage and terrible impulses that reveal to him his true vocation as a pure and perfect murderer. And so begins his decade of discovery and terror. as he cuts a bloody swath across the full length of a land. ingeniously exploiting and feeding upon a society's obsessions. As he maneuvers deftly through a seamy world of drugs. flesh. and perversions. the media will call him many things - but Martin Plunkett's real name is Death. His illiant. twisted mind is a horriying place to explore. His madness reflects a nation's ...