The main
focus of this section is the manhunt for Perry and Dick. We follow the two
killers all across the country, but we also follow every step of the agents who
are trying to track them down. Throughout the majority of this section, I felt
anxious and worried that they might actually get away with it. With every near
miss by the agents working on the case, I felt less and less sure of the
outcome of the manhunt. But the section ends with both parties converging to
one point. When we hear Perry walk through the murders step by step, we feel
relief knowing that they will be put to justice, and that they won’t be able to
perform such a terrible act ever again.
That’s
mainly how I felt reading this section. This is kind of the “climax” section of
the book, and now, we just have to hear the court case and oversee the completion
of the judge’s sentence. The whole novel was leading up to the capture of the
murderers, and now that they’re caught, I don’t feel much investment in the
rest of the story. The “resolution” to a book like this is where the
perpetrators are in jail, and in this case, hanged. I just don’t see how a
quarter of the book could be designated to just that, and honestly, I’m not
looking forward to reading a blow-by-blow description of a court proceedings
and a hanging.
But back to
section three. I thought it was full of suspense, and for a while, I couldn’t
put the book down. Once again, I love that the author decided to tell the story
through the perspectives of the killers and the people chasing them. The
constant shifts in viewpoints make the book so much more interesting, in my
opinion, because you can see several characters reacting to the same thing in
completely different ways.
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