A 'natural born killer' with a dreamer's gaze and a tattooed, blue-eyed, blond boy. They killed and killed till the whole house was dead...Agent Al Dewey, of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, has a crime to solve. A horrific crime - the cool slaughter of an entire family of God-fearing farming folk. Blood and hair all over the walls, and only a few dollars missing. All Agent Dewey has are two footprints, four dead bodies and a whole lot of questions, none with easy answers. Truman Capote's brilinat reconstruction of the events and consequences of that murderous November night in 1959 is a superb and gripping mix of journalistic skill and sheer imaginative power.'One of the stupendous books of the decade'Sunday Express'This book has not dated one iota and is a must for every self-respecting reader or would-be writer'Chris Sullivan, Loaded