This book is so well done it makes me feel like I'm guilty of a hundred hidden, bloody crimes. And perhaps all of you are, too. It didn't take long for me to genuinely like Lou Ford, and feel for him, that he's had to hide his intelligence and aptitude. At the same time I felt proud of his act fooling everyone so completely, at the fun of his playing into that role. At some point it occurred to me that I wasn't sharing in his fun role-playing game - he was fooling me, too. I'm not ashamed to say that point was after I finished the book. He'll get you, too. No matter how much you think you have come to understand and sympathize with a psychopath, that you're on the same side, dear reader, they are still outside the game and you are in it. Heck, you are it.