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The story of Blood Will Out is one of cosmic ironies and jaw-dropping reversals... Kirn’s persona is captivating ― funny, pissed off, highly literate, and self-searching... An elegant, classic writer... Add the highly readable, intricately told Blood Will Out to the list of great books about the dizzying tensions of the writing life and the maddening difficulty of getting at the truth. (Amity Gaige Slate)

Fascinating... Blood Will Out is a moral tale about the dangers of social climbing on a rickety ladder ― for both those trying to scramble up the rungs and those trying to hold it steady below. (The Washington Post)

In this smart, real-life psychological thriller, the fake Rockefeller is a zombie Gatsby and Kirn the post-apocalyptic Fitzgerald. (New York Times Book Review)

Page-turning . . . Invoking Jay Gatsby and The Talented Mr Ripley, [Kirn] shows us the way one individual, by simply dropping names all over the place, going sockless and never carrying a wallet, can get alarmingly far in a country that was founded on self-invention. (Meg Wolitzer National Public Radio)

There is no finer guide to the American berserk than Walter Kirn. (Gary Shteyngart)

Written with Walter Kirn's usual stylistic verve, insight, and imagination. (Joyce Carol Oates)

Walter Kirn's account of this psychopath is mesmerising and insightful . . . The trial scenes are grippingly suspenseful, the performances of both prosecuting and defence lawyers thrillingly depicted. (Independent)

One of the most unsettling and compelling memoirs I've ever read (Daisy Goodwin, The Sunday Times)

An astonishing story of duplicity ... Kirn's exploration of his own complicity in Rockefeller's illusions makes Blood Will Out a bravura account of true crime reportage. (The Irish Times)

A tale of sociopathic deviance that could have been penned by Patricia Highsmith (Irish Times, Best Crime Fiction of 2016)