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""A classic study of the sociopathic personality.""--Washington Post ""Sullivan . . . tells a story of sociopathic greed, pie-eyed gullibility and sheer incompetence of criminals and of their lawyers and prosecutors . . . the pages seem to turn themselves.""--Boston Globe ""A tour-de-force . . . Sullivan's reportage is extraordinary, his narrative enthralling.""--Rolling Stone ""Sullivan's book will be the landmark true-crime book of this decade.""--Cleveland Plain Dealer ""A thoroughly documented and brilliantly told tale that provides a provocative commentary on the high cost of greed and ambition.""--Euguene Register-Guard ""A masterful meditation on true crime and L.A. in the 1980s.""--Seattle Post-Intelligencer ""Sullivan's riveting tale is amazingly detailed and artfully presented . . . You can hardly turn the pages fast enough. This is contemporary history, brilliantly written.""--Playboy ""Sullivan's study of the so-called Billionaire Boys Club and its sociopathic leader, Joe Hunt, offers a remarkable array of elaborate deceptions and double crosses, all bound together in a gripping narrative.""--Publishers Weekly (starred review) ""[An] exceptionally captivating narrative . . . Thoroughly researched and compulsively readable, an essential entry in the true-crime canon.""--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) ""This is a true-crime book that truly transcends the genre.""--Library Journal (starred review) ""Compelling, masterfully written . . . destined to become a bestseller and a classic of the true-crime genre.""--Booklist (starred review)

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Randall Sullivan was a contributing editor to Rolling Stone for over twenty years. He is the author of Graveyard of the Pacific, Dead Wrong, The Price of Experience, LAbyrinth, The Miracle Detective, and Untouchable. His work has been published in, among many other places, Wired, Esquire, Outside, Men's Journal, Washington Post, and the Guardian. He lives in Oregon.

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