The Last Face You Will Ever See.

Ivan Solotaroff

Revue by Christine Hasan

The Last Face You Will Ever See.

This should have been a highly compelling book, opening doors to understanding as to how executioners distanced themselves from the State Sanctioned Homicide they performed.
Instead it meanders along like a riverboat on the Mississippi River on a wet Sunday afternoon.
It dips into the minds of executioners in the State of Mississippi yet somehow seems to totally miss the point.
To be honest I had to force myself to read up to page 29 after which point, for the sake of this revue, I skimmed and occasionally pecked at crumbs of information or insight.
I could only recommend it to those who enjoy the Pulp Detective Magazine Genre.
It is excruciatingly badly written and manages to skate around asking the truly meaningful questions that should have been asked.

This book (ISBN: 0-06093103-5) is published by Perennial Press.