"I cannot wait for this book to be put out, it is bleak as fuck. Raw, intrusive, a ceaseless flow of prose and agitated poetry."
- Zak Ferguson.
"On Tuesday, February 8, 1977, Tony Kiritsis went to mortgage broker Richard O Hall's office and wired the muzzle of a sawed-off shotgun to the back of Hall’s head. The wire was also connected to the trigger and the other end was connected to Hall's neck. This "dead man's line" meant that if a policeman shot Kiritsis the shotgun would go off and shoot Hall in the head. The same would happen if Hall tried to escape. Kiritsis called the police from Hall's office and told them that he had taken Hall as a hostage. Kiritsis then made a speech in front of live TV cameras declaring himself "a goddamned national hero." His speech became so emotional that some journalists thought he would shoot Hall, so they terminated the live broadcast. Eventually however, Kiritsis released Hall. He fired the shotgun into the air to prove it had been loaded and was immediately arrested. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity."
nearly 40 years later, i received a package from someone using the name "Kiritsis".
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