Mass Murder and Romance

By: John Stalwart Smith

Narrated by: Zachary Liebenstein

Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins

Publisher's summary

Mass murder and romance. Not a typical combination.

John Smith shrugs off his old grey life one day and decides to plan and carry out the largest act of mass murder by one single individual in the history of man.

He devises a plan that will take a year to accomplish by himself. On the day of the annual gay pride parade, he will watch from the distance as San Francisco is systematically destroyed by his own hand, culminating in a mile-long inferno along the route of the annual gay pride parade.

He's well on his way to success when unexpected people enter his life, and it suddenly is no longer a question of if he can do it but whether he can stop it once the gears have been set in motion.

©2015 Luke Ahearn (P)2015 Luke Ahearn

Man Plans Most Devistating Mass Murder In USA, but

The title sums it up. One man decides that he is going to plan the largest mass murder in the history of America. Why? Because he feels nothing.

His target is the annual gay pride parade in San Francisco. Why? No specific reason.

The author lays out John Smith's devious game plan and how he can keep himself from being tied to any evidence, before and after the event.

As his target day grows closer, he notices women for the first time. An office tryst, his first "relationship" and then enter Harriet.

It is a very unusual book, I'm not sure how or why the author came up with the premise – but I wanted to listen to the whole thing and did, in one sitting. I couldn't turn it off.

*I had also committed to listening to it in exchange for my thoughts, opinions and this review.

Another reason that I couldn't turn it off and/or the subject matter was appealing was the performance by Zachary Liebenstein. He was able to capture the emptiness, without feeling & explained how Smith made his deadly plans and explain the methodology. An excellent job, as I said.

Notes: Mature subject matter on both the domestic terrorists and romance

Rating: I don't to be one to encourage mass murder or plotting there of, so I will rate it specifically for literary value not the subject matter. Four stars Overall, four stars for the Narration/performance & four stars for a well written and thought out Story.

Rating of R for the reasons given above

This is really hard because the subject matter is so disturbing yet timely (December 2015)


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very good

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good book. this is the first book i have read like this and i liked it

The narrorator

the narroraer was great at reading this . his voice is perfect for this type of theme for the book

Mass Murder and Romance

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This is not romance, it is random sex, with a plot to destroy San Francisco on the side. Or a plot to destroy S F with random sex on the side. Not sure which. I was a bit disappointed.