ASIN: B00N4BKNOA
Publisher: Diptych Press
Pages: 483
In this literary thriller, Tim Roper and Paul Morel each become a character in the other’s narrative: the watcher being watched. Their experiences of childhood abuse and murder are superimposed, one upon the other, to produce a double vision of evil. Tim tells of growing up in the “Deep North” of Australia as an only child after World War II. Driven to become a serial killer, he marks the Equinox of leap years with double sacrifices to Mithras, the soldiers’ god. After 20 years and a botched kill, he takes his leave but will have to strike one last time. Meanwhile, Paul tells of a sabbatical in Sydney as a retiring Canadian professor who obsesses over tracking down the Equinox killer and his own inability to complete a New Gothic novel. These compulsions awaken repressed memories of growing up in Toronto as an only child orphaned in an evil household. Tim and Paul’s violent, sexual, and ...
