Rage is a difficult book to plow through. Anytime child molestation, child rape, infidelity, drugs and murder are involved, it is all difficult subject matter to read about but all together makes it even more difficult. This book makes one think about the law enforcement and child psychiatrists desire to keep on performing in their careers. How does one continue? Probably catching the people who did it, makes the professionals able to continue. Four stars were given to this book in this review. ( )

Troy Turner y Rand Duchay eran unos adolescentes cuando secuestraron y asesinaron a Kristal Malley. Troy, sociópata sin remordimientos, murió de forma violenta en el correccional. Rand, en cambio, consiguió sobrevivir a la condena. Ahora, con veintiún años, se ha convertido en un joven angustiado con la necesidad de hablar, una vez más, con el psicólogo Alex Delaware. A medida que Delaware y su amigo Sturgis revisan el truculento asesinato que destrozó a toda una comunidad, descubren un escalofriante legado de locura, suicidio y múltiples asesinatos. Y cuanto más comprenden el atroz crimen, más angustiosamente cerca se encuentran de desenmascarar al monstruoso orquestador de esta espiral de destrucción.

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De zaak was een mediahype: peuter vermoord door twee pubers. Nu, jaren later, wordt Alex Delaware gebeld door een van de daders, Rand Duchay. Hij is net vrij en wil Delaware dringend spreken over iets belangrijks. Maar Rand komt niet opdagen op de afgesproken plek: zijn lichaam wordt gevonden langs de snelweg. Samen met rechercheur Milo Sturgis start Alex Delaware een onderzoek. Al gravend in het verleden onthullen ze langzaam een monster van ongekende omvang.

Dr. Alex Delaware — everybody mixed up — crazy lives, people — kill young child — make a movie? — ministers — really controlling one on one — Bizarre — is this the real world?

Troy Turner and Rand Duchay were barely teenagers when they kidnapped and murdered a younger child. Troy, a remorseless sociopath, died violently behind bars. But the hulking, slow-witted Rand managed to survive his stretch. Now, at age twenty-one, he’s emerged a haunted, rootless young man with a pressing need: to talk–once again–with psychologist Alex Delaware. But the young killer comes to a brutal end, that conversation never takes place.

In a host of consecutive bestsellers, Jonathan Kellerman has kept readers spellbound with the intense, psychologically acute adventures of Dr. Alex Delaware-and with excursions through the raw underside of L.A. and the coldest alleys of the criminal mind. Rage offers a powerful new case in point, as Delaware and LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis revisit a horrifying crime from the past that has taken on shocking and deadly new dimensions. Troy Turner and Rand Duchay were barely teenagers when they kidnapped and murdered a younger child. Troy, a remorseless sociopath, died violently behind bars. But the hulking, slow-witted Rand managed to survive his stretch. Now, at age twenty-one, he's emerged a haunted, rootless young man with a pressing need: to talk-once again-with psychologist Alex Delaware. But the young killer comes to a brutal end, that conversation never takes place. Has karma caught up with Rand? Or has someone waited for eight patient years to dine on ice-cold revenge? Both seem strong possibilities to Sturgis, but Delaware's suspicions run deeper… and darker. Because fear in the voice of the grownup Rand Duchay-and his eerie final words to Alex: "I'm not a bad person"-betray untold secrets. Buried revelations so horrendous, and so damning, they're worth killing for. As Delaware and Sturgis retrace their steps through a grisly murder case that devastated a community, they discover a chilling legacy of madness, suicide, and multiple killings left in its wake-and even uglier truths waiting to be unearthed. And the nearer they come to understanding an unspeakable crime, the more harrowingly close they get to unmasking a monster hiding in plain sight. Rage finds Jonathan Kellerman in phenomenal form-orchestrating a relentlessly suspenseful, devilishly unpredictable plot to a finale as stunning and thought-provoking as it is satisfying.