The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard
The girl who escaped the Nothing Man was me. The woman who will now apprehend him is me…
Eve Black, then twelve, was the only member of her family to survive a run-in with the Nothing Man, a serial assailant. She is obsessed with finding the man who destroyed her life now that she is an adult.
Jim Doyle, a security officer at a supermarket, has just begun reading The Nothing Man, Eve’s true-crime memoir about her quest to find her family’s murderer. His anger intensifies with each page he turns. Jim isn’t only interested in reading about the Nothing Man, after all. The Nothing Man, he is.
Jim soon starts to see how perilously close Eve is to the truth. He is aware that she will persist in her search for him. He can only choose to first stop her.
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The Nothing Man launched his fifth and final assault twenty years ago. The Nothing Man killed Eve Black’s mother, father, and sister Anna, who was 7 years old, leaving just the 12-year-old Eve Black as a survivor. After murdering Eve’s family, he simply vanished. Eve eventually publishes The Nothing Man, a real crime memoir. She hopes that this book will lead to the discovery of the Nothing Man’s identity and his eventual prosecution for his crimes.
Jim Doyle works as a supermarket security officer. Jim Doyle works as a supermarket security officer. As he reads The Nothing Man, he can feel his wrath resurfacing with each page. As he reads more, he becomes increasingly aware of how near Eve is to discover the truth about the Nothing Man, and he knows he cannot allow that to happen. Because Jim is The Nothing Man, you see…
Two separate points of view are used to tell the story in the book. Eve’s book was written from her point of view. She recounts what she can recall of what happened to her family that evening in her book. Furthermore, what inspired her to write the book? Also included is information on what happened to The Nothing Man’s other victims.
Because Eve did not hold back when recounting the crimes, her work can occasionally be quite graphic. She also discussed the process of writing the book in her book, as well as the research and assistance she received. This was an extremely eerie, tense book to read.
