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Koko
by Peter Straub
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
Ten years after they participate in an atrocity in Vietnam, four veterans reunite at the dedication of the War Memorial to talk about a fifth, Tim Underhill, who appears to be murdering people in South East Asia, and to decide whether to go over there to find him.
This is my nth reading of this monumental thriller, and I honestly can't remember if I ever fully realised that while the book has a secret hero, it also has a secret villain, that the real monster at the heart of the book, Harry Beevers, is right out there in the open in all his self-regard and mediocrity, tolerated humoured by the others when surely the only rational response to someone who did what he did and got away with it is to put a bullet in his head. In that sense Koko, the serial killer, is the sanest, m
This is my nth reading of this monumental thriller, and I honestly can't remember if I ever fully realised that while the book has a secret hero, it also has a secret villain, that the real monster at the heart of the book, Harry Beevers, is right out there in the open in all his self-regard and mediocrity, tolerated humoured by the others when surely the only rational response to someone who did what he did and got away with it is to put a bullet in his head. In that sense Koko, the serial killer, is the sanest, m