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Cry for War: The Story of Suzan and Michael Carson
by Richard D. Reynolds
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Squibob Pr (1988-01)
ISBN: 0961857722
EAN: 9780961857721
Dewy Decimal #: 364.152309794
Paperback: 351 pages
Edition: 1st
SKU: M9560
Condition: Very Good
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Customer Reviews
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Good read, needed editor
Rating  (3)
Date: 2006-06-19
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
I've had this book for years and recently reread it. Made me wonder whether Michael and Suzan Carson are still the raving lunatics they were during their killing spree back in the 1980s.
Unlike the other reviewer, I never identified with the Carsons. They, and their twisted thought processes, were terrifying. I'd like to know what they had to say to Richard Reynolds after they read the book and discovered what he really thought of them.
Cry for War is a good read, a page-turner. But countless typos and misspellings, including many in proper names, distract the reader and give the book a slipshod feel.
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Cry for War
Rating  (5)
Date: 1999-12-12
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
Richard Reynolds actually gets into the heads of two crazy people and lets the reader follow them on their adventures. You are prepared to hate them after the first chapter which is from the point of view of the victim's friends. Then, as we accompany them on their flight from justice and enter their minds, we find ourselves seduced into liking them and actually rooting for them. Such is the power of this book.This is a book of the streets and the people who inhabit them. It's a book of punk rockers, welfare mothers, Golden Gate Park, pot farms, nomads crashing in abandoned cabins, and murder. Suzan and Michael are pot dealers (and smokers) who are high on their own insanity. They see themselves as Moslem assassins and their lives as a holy war against "Witches" and other "infidels." Richard Reynolds becomes Suzan and Michael as does the reader. How many times have you become somebody else? How often has it been someone repellant and still you loved the experience? Highly recommended
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