Dust jacket has jagged edge wear, some spots on a couple of pages, pages have darkened with age, binding tight - From Library Journal Between December 22 and December 28, 1987, former Air Force Master Sargeant Ronald "Gene" Simmons, alienated from his family and unable to hold a job, committed what was perhaps the worst family killing spree in the United States, not only murdering all 14 members of his immediate family but also slaughtering five other people. Coauthors Marshall and Williams have tried to reconstruct Simmons's life to give readers clues as to his motivations for the murders. Having no eyewitnesses, journals, or diaries, they used family records and effects and innumerable interviews with the remaining family, coworkers, and social service and law-enforcement personnel to extrapolate what there was to know of Simmons and his bizarre family life. Much of the book consists of speculative dramatic re-creations. While this "fictionalization" makes for exciting reading, so much is not based on the actual record that this book is not recommended. - Sandra K. Lindheimer, Middlesex Law Lib., Cambridge, Mass. Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.