Advantages: Gets under your skin.... Disadvantages: Can seem a bit slow at times
...narrator", having been committed to the mental hospital years ago after a lifetime of hearing "voices" in his head. No-one could help becoming involved with Francis; he is vulnerable and afraid of telling anyone about his voices. He does not want to seem crazy and compared to others at the hospital he is relatively normal. Peter the Fireman - Okay, so it's not his real name… in the hospital no-one uses their real names. However he was once a fireman, ... ...- a criminal profiler and the investigator of the serial murders. She has a past - she was attacked and raped years before hence her obsessive need to find criminals and see them go to justice.
*** The Plot ***
After an invitation to a rather unusual reunion triggers past memories, Francis tells his story of what took place twenty years ago in the Western State Mental Hospital. He tells of his arrival there, how he met and became friends with the ...
wolfatgoogle 20.08.2006
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