The Coast-To-Coast Murders, Patterson and Barker - C

                  This highly-acclaimed novel starts out so strongly that it is hard to believe the second half of the book could crash and burn so spectacularly.  A crazed psychologist spends a quarter of a century trying to implant multiple schizophrenic personalities into a traumatized  boy who was four when he came under his care.  Add in serial killings, an equally abused adoptive sister, funding (unexplained) by the US government, shootouts, explosions and multiple fires all results in what I choose to categorize as a mess.