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Original Title: Killer on the Road
ISBN: 0099539705 (ISBN13: 9780099539704)
Edition Language: English
Literary Awards: Deutscher Krimi Preis for 2. Platz International (1990)
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Silent Terror Paperback | Pages: 280 pages
Rating: 3.63 | 1861 Users | 103 Reviews

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1953-1983: 30 years of American society, from the hope of Eisenhower's presidency, to the kinky flower generation, through the death of the dream, Charles Manson, the beginning of the twisted nightmare and the moral backlash of the 80s. One Man's crimes span these years and the length and breadth of America. Martin Michael Plunkett - of genius level intelligence, articulate, ruthless, yet deranged sex killer. And beneath his calm veneer, rage voices implanted in his mind in one of the defing and deeply buried moment of his life, a moment so shocking that it takes him thirty years to bring it back into his consciousness. Sentenced to life in Sing Sing prison, Plunkett begins his autobio-graphical memoir, an account of more than fifty killing that made him America's most wanted serial killer and its greatest enigma. His account will drive even those who brought him to justice to despair.

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Title:Silent Terror
Author:James Ellroy
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:First Edition
Pages:Pages: 280 pages
Published:September 17th 1990 by Arrow (first published 1986)
Categories:Fiction. Mystery. Noir. Thriller. Crime. Horror

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A killer! The road! This book has it all.

"Killer on the Road" is possibly James Ellroy's best book, one that's sadly overlooked, forgotten, written off as "just an early work", and not a novel to attach as much admiration to as his larger, multi-narrative novels. A fuller version of a review of sorts will appear soon.

Early Ellroy--a pretty brutal, first person portrait of a serial killer that was retitled and republished after he hit it big. It's skipable.

Surprised to be giving an Ellroy novel anything less than four stars, but this one just didn't do it for me. An early work that is written primarily as a first-person recounting of a serial killer's cross-country reign of terror, "Killer on the Road" shows flashes of Ellroy's later greatness, but suffers from a plot that substitutes gore for suspense. The events portrayed in this novel are harrowing -- and the narrator's lack of remorse is chilling -- but the novel fails to bridge the disconnect

An early Ellroy (1986), 'Killer on the Road' follows a relatively linear narrative detailing the life of a serial killer travelling east across America from the late 1960s until the early 1980s. It's told primarily through the killer's own point of view although newspaper clippings and a chief detective's diary are included to add authenticity / other points of view to the story.Michael Plunkett comes from a broken home. Brought up by his heavily medicated mother, he finds himself an outcast at

Early Ellroy--a pretty brutal, first person portrait of a serial killer that was retitled and republished after he hit it big. It's skipable.

3 1/4 stars