King Coffin

A Novel

Fiction & Literature, Psychological, Crime, Literary
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Author: Conrad Aiken ISBN: 9781504011419
Publisher: Open Road Media Publication: June 2, 2015
Imprint: Open Road Media Language: English
Author: Conrad Aiken
ISBN: 9781504011419
Publisher: Open Road Media
Publication: June 2, 2015
Imprint: Open Road Media
Language: English

**Inspired by the infamous case of Leopold and Loeb, King Coffin is a chilling glimpse into the mind of a twisted genius

The sun is setting over Harvard, and Jasper Ammen is not impressed. A brilliant student who loathes all that the world has put before him, he gazes with contempt at the beauty of the campus, the intellectual pretensions of his fellow students, and the gaudiness of the sunset, for none of these approaches the majesty of Jasper’s mind. A reader of Nietzsche and Stirner, he is convinced of his own superiority, and has decided to prove it in the most irrefutable manner: with the perfect murder.
 
Ammen will choose his victim at random and commit the unsolvable crime before a host of witnesses who will see what happens but not be able to understand it. Only his closest friends will realize that he has gotten away with murder, and they won’t be able to stop him or see him punished for the ghastly deed.
 
An intense and disturbing portrait of rationalism taken to a dangerous extreme, *King Coffin *ranks alongside the works of Henry James and Fyodor Dostoevsky as a masterpiece of psychological realism.

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**Inspired by the infamous case of Leopold and Loeb, King Coffin is a chilling glimpse into the mind of a twisted genius

The sun is setting over Harvard, and Jasper Ammen is not impressed. A brilliant student who loathes all that the world has put before him, he gazes with contempt at the beauty of the campus, the intellectual pretensions of his fellow students, and the gaudiness of the sunset, for none of these approaches the majesty of Jasper’s mind. A reader of Nietzsche and Stirner, he is convinced of his own superiority, and has decided to prove it in the most irrefutable manner: with the perfect murder.
 
Ammen will choose his victim at random and commit the unsolvable crime before a host of witnesses who will see what happens but not be able to understand it. Only his closest friends will realize that he has gotten away with murder, and they won’t be able to stop him or see him punished for the ghastly deed.
 
An intense and disturbing portrait of rationalism taken to a dangerous extreme, *King Coffin *ranks alongside the works of Henry James and Fyodor Dostoevsky as a masterpiece of psychological realism.

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