Books
April, 1996
Few Writers have stared so unflinchingly into the face of violence as has Philip Caputo. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book Rumor of War, and in Horn of Africa and Indian Country, he tried to make sense of war and atrocities. Now, in the novel Equation for Evil (HarperCollins), he probes the psyche of a mass murderer. A lone gunman dressed in Army combat fatigues opens fire on a busload of Asian American children in San Joaquin, California. With cruel efficiency, he kills 14 and wounds four more...
