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Mördare på drift (1986)

av James Ellroy

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Martin Michael Plunkett is a product of his times -- the possessor of a genius intellect, a pitiless soul of brushed steel, and a heart of blackest evil. With criminal tendencies forged in the fires of L.A.'s Charles Manson hysteria, he comes to the bay city of San Francisco -- and submits to savage and terrible impulses that reveal to him his true vocation as a pure and perfect murderer. And so begins his decade of discovery and terror, as he cuts a bloody swath across the full length of a land, ingeniously exploiting and feeding upon a society's obsessions. As he maneuvers deftly through a seamy world of drugs, flesh, and perversions, the media will call him many things -- but Martin Plunkett's real name is Death. His brilliant, twisted mind is a horriying place to explore. His madness reflects a nation's own. The killer is on the road. And there's nowhere in America to hide.… (mer)
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El agente literario Molton Alpert ha anunciado que representara a martin Michael Plunkett, condenado por varios asesinatos y conocido como el Verdugo Sexual, en la venta de sus memorias autobiograficas, un relato que, segun Alperte, "no se calla nada y esta destinado a recibir la consideracion de texto clasico sobre la mente criminal".
Martin Michael Plunkett es la oscura combinacion de un intelecto privilegiado, un alma despiadada y un corazon maligno. Su infancia se vio sacudida por sueños terribles y enrevesadas fantasias. Pronto descubre el alivio que le supone la vision, el sabor y el tacto de la sangre tibia. Y se rinde a los salvajes y terribles impulsos que le revelan que su verdadera vocacion es ser un asesino perfecto. Asi traza un sangriento reguero a lo largo de las carreteras de Estados Unidos, de costa a costa. Parece que no hay motivos, y es que Martin Plankett mata solo por placer. Su brillante y retorcida mente es un espeluznante lugar sin explotar. Ahora el mismo se encargara de confesar todo el horror. Su locura refleja la locura de una nacion. El asesino esta en la carretera.
  Natt90 | Mar 27, 2023 |
All of Ellroy' books I have read relate to corruption, and this one is no exception. It purports to be the memoir, written from his prison cell, of a serial killer called "Sexecutioner" by the media. Martin Plunkett is an extremely bright, insane individual. He completely baffles the school psychologists who try to bring him out of his self imposed shell; he rarely talks to anyone. During class he withdraws into movie screen images-- brain movies, he calls them, superimposing his classmates' and teacher's faces into a collage of bizarre images. He then begins to identify with a comic character bad guy, the "Shroud Shifter." Following his mother's ""— switched her Phenobarbital tablets with some Benzedrine— is placed for some months with a burglary cop who unintentionally supplies him with assorted burglary tricks. During his first burglary, he runs into a guard dog that he kills, and the thrill provides a bizarre sexual release for him that turns a thrill into a compulsion. Despite his preternatural caution, during one escapade where he entered a house to watch two people make love, he is caught and sentenced to a year in prison. Despite his obvious intelligence, and the lie that he has a master' degree in library science — already, by age twentyone? asks the skeptical deputy — he is assigned to the Trash and Freight section as a trusty because he was so obviously fit from his workouts and showed he could do thirty-one chin-ups. This is where is real education begins, listening to the other convicts talk about their exploits and learning from their braggadocio. Released after nine months, he moves to San Francisco, continually tormented by the brain movies, and he gets a job digging out tree stumps for a real estate developer. Then one night everything explodes. Invited in for a beer with an inebriated couple, he freaks when the girl comes out of the bathroom having just died her hair blond, and he kills both of them. Traveling in Wisconsin, Plunkett is nearly caught in the middle of a snowstorm at a roadblock set up to catch a local rapist who had murdered a series of young women in southeastern Wisconsin. That killer is eventually revealed to Plunkett to be a Wisconsin State Police sergeant, who forms a weird bond with Plunkett, and the two embark independently on assorted murder sprees. Plunkett's personal revelations are interspersed with newspaper reports of their homicides and later the diary of the FBI agent assigned to tracking down reports of unsolved murders where the killer may have crossed state lines. This book, despite its ghoulishness, is very hard to put down. I read it at one sitting, hardly able to get up for the bathroom. Ellroy has taken his exploration of evil to a new high (low?). ( )
  ecw0647 | Sep 30, 2013 |
James Ellroy se met dans la peau d'un tueur en série et nous raconte son histoire. Ce livre est le récit réalisé par un tueur de son épopée sanglante. La narration est donc à la première personne. Elle est ponctuée par des extraits de journaux, de rapports de police et du journal d'un enquêteur. Pour un livre de James Ellroy, il est très accessible car il y a peu de personnages — il croisera tout de même la route d'une célébrité plutôt flippante elle aussi: Charles Manson — , ou en tout cas ils ne sont pas présents très longtemps … Le tueur est un personnage complexe à la fois très intelligent et extrêmement violent. Il est imprévisible et souffre, en plus d'une enfance très difficile, de graves troubles psychologiques (schizophrénie).

Le travail d'Ellroy est fascinant, on a du mal à comprendre comment il a réussi le tour de force de se mettre, de manière aussi crédible, dans la tête d'un tueur en série. Le résultat est bluffant et glaçant. L'article Wikipédia consacré à l'auteur révèle que ce roman est utilisé comme référence dans les écoles de formation de policiers, c'est dire s'il est crédible. Difficile de laisser tomber le livre, pas par empathie pour le tueur, mais parce que l'on a tout simplement envie de connaître la suite. James Ellroy fait également très bien son boulot car les éléments externes à la confession (articles et autres documents) viennent entretenir le suspense en anticipant ou en revenant sur certains passages de la terrible équipée. Ces éléments contribuent largement à l'attrait assez malsain qu'exerce le livre.

N'étant pas spécialiste du sujet, je ne peux pas dire si le résultat est réaliste, mais en tout cas ce récit m'a bien plus impressionné que certains — et trop nombreux — films ou livres exploitant le filon des tueurs en série. Le seul qui, à mon avis et à ma connaissance, puisse tenir la comparaison est le American Psycho de Bret Easton Ellis. Les deux ouvrages sont aussi crus (aucun détail n'est épargné au lecteur) et dérangeants. En conclusion, un livre passionnant à ne cependant pas mettre entre toutes les mains. http://www.aubonroman.com/2013/05/un-tueur-sur-la-route-par-james-ellroy.html ( )
  yokai | May 15, 2013 |
C'est le serial killer qui parle, Ellroy nous place dans sa tête. Extraordinaire, à glacer le sang ! ( )
  clinchamps | Jun 26, 2009 |
For me to properly review “Killer on the Road” by James Ellroy I need to implicitly and accurately describe the resonantial feelings I went through while reading this perceptive novel. Disgust, hate, jealously, fear, distrust, physical palpitations and complete psychic exhaustion go a long way in elucidating the moods I went through and the expedition Mr. Ellroy sent me on. Bearing in mind that this novel was written twenty plus years ago, the impression I get is of a superb writer with a deft hand at characterization and story development. I can hardly wait to pick up the next novel from Mr. Ellroy but for the sake of my sanity, I do need a breather. ( )
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Martin Michael Plunkett is a product of his times -- the possessor of a genius intellect, a pitiless soul of brushed steel, and a heart of blackest evil. With criminal tendencies forged in the fires of L.A.'s Charles Manson hysteria, he comes to the bay city of San Francisco -- and submits to savage and terrible impulses that reveal to him his true vocation as a pure and perfect murderer. And so begins his decade of discovery and terror, as he cuts a bloody swath across the full length of a land, ingeniously exploiting and feeding upon a society's obsessions. As he maneuvers deftly through a seamy world of drugs, flesh, and perversions, the media will call him many things -- but Martin Plunkett's real name is Death. His brilliant, twisted mind is a horriying place to explore. His madness reflects a nation's own. The killer is on the road. And there's nowhere in America to hide.

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