Blood Will Out

by Walter Kirn

In the summer of 1998, Walter Kirn - then a young novelist struggling with fatherhood and a dissolving marriage - set out on a peculiar, fateful errand: to personally deliver a crippled hunting dog from an animal shelter in Montana to the New York apartment of one Clark Rockefeller, a secretive young banker and art collector. Thus began a fifteen-year relationship that drew Kirn deep into the fun-house world of an outlandish, eccentric son of privilege who, one day, would be shockingly unmasked as a brazen serial impostor and brutal double-murderer.

This is a one-of-a-kind story of an innocent man duped by a real-life Mr Ripley, taking us on a bizarre and haunting journey from the private club rooms of Manhattan to the courtrooms and prisons of Los Angeles.

• ISBN10: 1472115899
• ISBN13: 9781472115898
• Publish Date: 2 July 2015 (first published 10 March 2014)
• Publish Status: Active
• Out of Print: 5 March 2021
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Imprint: Corsair
• Format: Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
• Pages: 240
• Language: English

Reviews

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This is the first I have read by Walter Kirn, I was looking forward to book so much that I purchased it in hardcover. That was several months ago, I finally decided I needed to end it and finish the book.

I am not sure who I disliked more, Walter or Christian Gerhartsreiter. Since Walter has not murdered anyone to my knowledge I will give him the benefit of doubt. Kirn is at least honest in his telling of being snookered by a con artist - the problem is I ended up feeling Walter was trite and it took the steam out of the story.


This review was originally posted on The Pfaeffle Journal