Now, for the first time, John has to confront a danger outside himself, a threat he can't control, a menace to everything and everyone he would love, if only he could. Perhaps that's what gives him the objectivity to recognize that there's something different about the body the police have just found behind the Wash-n-Dry Laundromat-and to appreciate what that difference means. They don't demand or expect the empathy he's unable to offer. Terrible impulses constantly tempt him, so for his own sake, and the safety of those around, he lives by rigid rules to keep himself good and normal. He’s obsessed with serial killers, but really doesn’t want to become one. Terrible impulses constantly tempt him, so for his own sake, and the safety of those around, he lives by rigid rules to keep himself good and normal. Fifteen-year old John Cleaver is dangerous, and he knows it. So for his own sake, and the safety of those around him, he lives by rigid rules he's written for himself, practicing normal life as if it were a private religion that could save him from damnation.ĭead bodies are normal to John. Fifteen-year old John Cleaver is dangerous, and he knows it. He's obsessed with serial killers, but really doesn't want to become one. A disturbed sixteen year-old boy is trying his best to not turn into the murderer he feels genetically programmed to be. I AM NOT A SERIAL KILLER was a great book about John Wayne Cleaver, our protagonist, and his struggles with the fact that he might be a sociopath and. Animal cruelty, calling living things it. When he has to confront a danger outside himself, a threat he cant control, he is. In a small Midwestern town, a troubled teen with homicidal tendencies must hunt down and destroy a supernatural killer while keeping his own inner demons at bay. He's spent his life doing his best not to live up to his potential. John, whose name evokes the real-life Illinois Killer Clown John Wayne Gacy, is fascinated by the murders, an amateur Sherlock Holmes who sees things that the local police miss. Max Records gives one of the best performances of the year in the creepy and darkly funny I Am Not A Serial Killer. John Wayne Cleaver lives a life governed by rigid rules and practices. John Wayne Cleaver is dangerous, and he knows it. Listen to an excerpt of Dan Wells's I AM NOT A SERIAL KILLER audiobook, read by Kirby Heyborne.ĭan Wells's debut audiobook, I Am Not a Serial Killer, is the first installment in a trilogy that will keep you awake and then haunt your dreams.
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