![]() ![]() Shadiness aside, this type of book is also hugely entertaining. Well, it's really shady, especially since it's never clear what is hard-fact and what is guesswork. It's kind of shady, a dance along an ethical borderline. The Executioner's Song is one of those oxymoronically-named “non-fiction novels.” In a non-fiction novel – the classic of the genre being Truman Capote's In Cold Blood – a journalist takes his research as far as humanly possible, right up to the boundary of unknown human thought, and then fills those gaps with reasoned speculation. ![]() Then, he, too, stepped over the line, and turned around, and looked back at the hooded figure in the chair. Father Meersman traced the big sign of the cross, the last act he had to perform. “Now, the doctor was beside him, pinning a white circle on Gilmore’s black shirt, and the doctor stepped back. ![]()
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