A found journal whose author wishes to remain anonymous... After losing his family in a tragic automobile accident, one man’s reason to go on living is stripped away. That is until one day, by chance - some might call it serendipity - he overhears a conversation that moves him to consider a new life. A man needs to be killed, and our protagonist decides to kill him. But he doesn’t stop there. Keeping a journal at every step of his way, our anonymous protagonist archives the subsequent events, taking the reader through his accounts of the men he kills and the causal antecedents that facilitate these assassinations. Attempting to come to grips with the life-shattering car crash while trying to make sense of the moral ramifications of his deadly acts of vigilantism - the ethical assassin kills only men who need killing - he tells us his story while attempting to navigate the dangers of doing so.
In this, his first novel, Dr. William Ferraiolo brings us a damaged hero stumbling through the ruins of his once perfect life, who has chosen murder as his path instead of making sense of the causes of his destruction, a path that takes us through the deepest, darkest woods of the mind.
-- Tim McGarvey, author of Only the Days We Danced
