Overview: A found journal whose author wishes to remain anonymous. After losing his family in a tragic automobile accident, one man’s reason to go on living is stripped away.

That is until one day, by chance - some might call it serendipity - he overhears a conversation that moves him to consider a new life. A man needs to be killed, and our protagonist decides to kill him.

Verdict: But he doesn’t stop there. Keeping a journal at every step of his way, our anonymous protagonist archives the subsequent events, taking the reader through his accounts of the men he kills and the causal antecedents that facilitate these assassinations.

Attempting to come to grips with the life-shattering car crash while trying to make sense of the moral ramifications of his deadly acts of vigilantism - the ethical assassin kills only men who need killing - he tells us his story while attempting to navigate the dangers of doing so.

In what is his very first, and expertly sculpted debut novel, Doctor William Ferraiolo brings forth the layered tale of a damaged, broken, confused, yet now destructively motivated and driven soul whose newly cultivated path is one of elimination over mindful preservation.

Now, whether it be true or not, the mythology of this person’s journey actually originates within the opening Editor’s Note, where we are told that the text of the book is taken from a leather-bound journal found lying on a table at a diner in Sonora, CA.

There is no indication to the identity of the author and the book is published without any claim regarding its authenticity, thus the events described herein may have occurred, or they may have been invented to some degree or other.

Regardless, and whether or not everything written might be completely fictious, the substance of the prose written by Ferraiolo is as addictively, and therein irresistibly engrossing as any novel has any right to be, whilst at the same time bringing forth a powerfully gripping story about a man who only kills those who deserve to die.

For this is his judgement of these people because of what they have done to harm the innocent. For his assessment of the people he has killed is correct or, at the very least, morally defensible. This is, at any rate, what he tells himself.

About the Author - William Ferraiolo received a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Oklahoma in 1997. Since then, he has taught philosophy at San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, California. A practicing Stoic, Ferraiolo has published numerous articles in a variety of professional and academic journals. His bestselling first book, Meditations on Self-Discipline and Failure, was published in 2017. William lives in Lodi, CA.

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