Endless depravity

I've read a couple books since the last post, one of which being Richard Laymon's Endless Night.

Laymon has a knack of being pretty brutal in his novels, but this one seems to be a little more brutal than usual (not that that is a necessarily bad thing).

Jody is sleeping over a friend's house, when a group of lunatics break in and slaughter everyone in the house--except for Jody and her friend's younger brother, as they manage to escape.

But, as it goes, just because they escaped doesn't mean they are safe. No one is ever really safe in a Laymon novel. Simon, one of the killers, is under orders to find the two and bring them to the leader of the little Manson gang.

The interesting thing about Night is it's told in both third person (Jody's story) and first person (Simon's tale). And Laymon segues between the two voices with ease.

If you've never read Laymon, this is not a good place to start, as he takes a little getting used to. Start with The Traveling Vampire Show and come back to me.