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Over the course of one ghostly week in September 1982, the bodies of four taxi drivers were found in Buenos Aires, each murder carried out with the same cold precision. The assailant was a nineteen-year-old boy, odd and taciturn, who gave the impression of being completely sane. But the crimes themselves were not: four murders, as exact as they were senseless. More than thirty years later, Argentine author Carlos Busqued began visiting Ricardo Melogno, the serial killer, in prison. Their conversations return to the nebulous era of the crimes and a story full of missing pieces. The result is a book at once hypnotic and unnerving, constructed from forensic documents, newspaper clippings, and interviews with Melogno himself. Without imposing judgment, Busqued allows for the killer to describe his way of retreating from the world and to explain his crimes as best he can. In his own words, Melogno recalls a visit from Pope Francis, grim depictions of daily life in prison, and childhood remembrances of an unloving mother who drove her son to Brazil to study witchcraft. As these conversations progress, the focus slowly shifts from the crimes themselves to Melogno's mistreatment and misdiagnosis while in prison to his current fate: incarcerated in perpetuity despite having served his full sentence.

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Carlos Busqued is a writer whose first novel, Under This Terrible Sun, was a finalist for the 2008 Herralde Prize and was later adapted for film. Born in Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña, Argentina, he currently resides in Buenos Aires. David Bendena is an actor and a musician based in the Midwest. His theatre experience over the past twenty years has taken him to stages throughout Chicago, Kansas City, and Michigan. He is very proud to be a member of the Actors Equity Association and to be a Resident Artist with the Purple Rose Theatre Company. Samuel Rutter is a writer and translator from Melbourne, Australia. He has translated several novels from the Spanish, including Cristina Sánchez-Andrade's The Winterlings, and has written for Harper's, The White Review, The Paris Review Daily, and T Magazine.

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