Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade [Paperback]

In the summer of 1998, Walter Kirnthen an aspiring novelist struggling with impending fatherhood and a dissolving marriageset out on a peculiar, fateful errand: to personally deliver a crippled hunting dog from his home in Montana to the New York apartment of one Clark Rockefeller, a secretive young banker and art collector who had adopted the dog over the Internet. Thus began a fifteen-year relationship that drew Kirn deep into the fun-house world of an outlandish, eccentric son of privilege who ultimately would be unmasked as a brazen serial impostor, child kidnapper, and brutal murderer.[A] tight, gripping book&This bit of noir, from Mr. Kirn about Clark Rockefeller, is just right.In this smart, real-life psychological thriller, the fake Rockefeller is a zombie Gatsby and Kirn the post-apocalyptic Fitzgerald.In this smart, real-life psychological thriller, the fake Rockefeller is a zombie Gatsby and Kirn the post-apocalyptic Fitzgerald.A gripping performance!Has the power and insight and raw energy of an instant classic.There is no finer guide to the American berserk than Walter Kirn.The parallels with Patricia HighsmithsKirn bravely lays bare his own vanities and follies in this heart-pounding true tale; he examines the hold of fiction on the human imaginationhow we live for it and occasionally die for it, too.The story of[A] fascinating account of the imposter he considered his friend for 10 years&A m?lange of memoir, stranger-than-fiction crime reporting and cultural critique. The literary markers run the gamut from James EllroysOne of the most honest, compelling and strangest books about the relationship between a writer and his subject ever penned by an American scribe& Each new revelation comes subtly, and each adds to the pathetic and creepy portrait of Clark Rockefeller as a vacuous manipulator& The ending ofKirns account of his friendship with this strange and terrible man cuts through the frippery of Gerhartsreiters outrageousl³.