Thread by @hradzka

after the murder spree and before Amazon yanked it, I got SANCTION bc I had a vague image of the author as stuck at a certain tier in the wannabe macho grifter scene but wanted a sense of the kind of freak he was

and

“have you ever considered that maybe you’re the asshole”

the dude’s main ideology is that Real Men should be able to murder people bc nobody who ever screwed over him, a Real Man, would’ve done it if they had actually thought he might murder them

that if murder were legal one of them might have just murdered HIM never crosses his mind

also, given that the novel dropped names and locations and methodology for his actual murders it could be taken as a guide to how he thought things would go

if so, his plan was to murder forty-six people, survive, go to prison, and murder black inmates until he was killed

if that was the plan, then he reached only ten percent of his murder goals before being shot and killed by a female cop

turned out he was not the unstoppable alpha high-body-count mass murderer in real life that he was in his head

who could possibly have guessed

the other thing I noted before I got bored and stopped was the drugs

I had heard something about the author popping lots of opiates and sure enough, his alter ego(es) do too

one character introduced banging two meth-head girls is the rich alpha male governor of Colorado

in one podcast interview the host expressed surprise about how long the books were and yet how quickly they were written

I would not be surprised in the slightest to learn that the answer to that conundrum was spelled “methamphetamine”