Stephen Rojack is a decorated war hero a former Congressman and a certifiedpublic intellectual with his own television show. He is also married to thevery rich ... » 

Stephen Rojack is a decorated war hero a former Congressman and a certifiedpublic intellectual with his own television show. He is also married to thevery rich very beautiful and utterly amoral Deborah Caughlin Kelly. But onenight in the prime of his existence he hears the moon talking to him on theterrace of a fashionable New York highrise and it is urging him to killhimself. It is almost as a defense against that infinitely seductive voice thatRojack murders his wife. In this wild battering ram of a novel which wasoriginally published to vast controversy in 1965 Norman Mailer creates acharacter who might be a fictional precursor of the philosopherkiller he wouldlater profile in The Executioners Song As Rojack runs amok through the cityin which he was once a privileged citizen Mailer peels away the layers of oursocial norms to reveal a world of pure appetite and relentless cruelty.Sensual horrifying and informed by a vision that is one part Nietzsche onepart de Sade and one part Charlie Parker An American Dream grabs the readerby the throat and refuses to let go. «