Chicago Loop.
Paul Theroux
196 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 3455077129
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Language: English
Publish: August 1, 1991
20th CenturyAmericanAmerican FictionContemporaryFictionLiterary FictionNovelsThe United States Of AmericaThriller
“Riveting…CHICAGO LOOP is an icy tale brilliantly imagined.”THE BOSTON GLOBEHe knifes silently through the shadows of the steamy Chicago summer night, prowling for lonely souls who need his help. The desperate come to him, answering his ads with promises of romantic evenings and possibly a future, never suspecting that they are the prey, chosen to statiate a twisted sexual desire.Parker Jagoda is also a successful businessman with a wife, a child, and a house in the suburbs–respectable, health-conscious, and polite. Nobody knows about his jagged double life, his dark, hungry obsessions. He has fooled everyone except those who gasp their last dying scream. And, of course, he has not fooled himself–which may be the only glimmer of hope left inside the darkest of hearts….