Blood Will out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade

A USA Today Top 10 Best Book of Winter 2014

Walter Kirn's "Blood Will out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade" is about Walter Kirn who sets out on a peculiar errand: to deliver a crippled hunting dog from his home in Montana to the New York apartment of Clark Rockefeller, a secretive young banker and art collector who had adopted the dog over the Internet.

Thus began a fifteen-year relationship of Kirn and outlandish, eccentric son of privilege who ultimately would be unmasked as a brazen serial impostor, child kidnapper, and brutal murderer.

As Kirn uncovers the truth about his friend, a psychopath masquerading as a gentleman, he also confronts hard truths about himself. Why, as a writer of fiction, was he susceptible to the deception of a sinister fantasist whose crimes, Kirn learns, were based on books and movies? What are the hidden psychological links between the artist and the con man?

Kirn realizes Rockefeller may have intended to take another victim during his years as a fugitive from justice: Kirn himself.

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