Best-selling author Bryan Burrough (Barbarians at the Gate, Public
Enemies, Big Rich) recently made a shocking discovery: The small town
of Temple, Texas, where he had grown up, had harbored a dark secret. One
of his high school classmates, Danny Corwin, was a vicious serial killer
who had raped and mutilated six women, murdering three of them. Yet the
town had denied all early signs of the radical evil that was growing
within Corwin. What had led the local media to ignore his early rapes?
Why had the local Presbyterian Church tried to shield him from prison?
Why had local law enforcement been unable to solve and prosecute his
murders as they continued?
Burrough is widely admired as a master storyteller, and this chilling
tale raises important questions of whether serial killers can be
recognized before they kill or rehabilitated after they do. It is also a
story of Texas politics and power that led the good citizens of the town
of Temple to enable a demon who was their worst nightmare.
This title contains mature themes, including physical and sexual
violence, that some listeners may find unsettling.
