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Book Review of Perfectly Executed

Perfectly Executed
Perfectly Executed
Author: Peter Van Sant, Jenna Jackson
Genre: Nonfiction
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback


'Perfectly Executed' is about a couple of entitled young guys who decide to execute the parents &sister of one of them. The family is Muslim and son resents father's thrift and mother's dedication to religion, plus his sister is autistic. How inconvenient to not have a perfect family!

Worse than him is the friend who believes he'll share the insurance money and who wants to explore his fascination with Neitzsche's philosophy. Depressing, but written well by one of the reporters who covered the case. Boys fled to Canada and the tale of the six years it took to extradite them is interesting. It is frightening to see the emptiness and vacancy of values of these young men. They were considered great students, bright, and promising. Yet they achieved nothing except chaos because they had no value system and simply did what felt good at the moment.