The Rapist

The Rapist introduces us to Truman Ferris Pinter, an amoral man occupying a prison cell for a heinous crime committed years earlier. Master storyteller Les Edgerton guides us on a haunting journey inside the criminal mind to show that no matter how depraved a person appears to be, there might still exist a spark of humanity.

Les Edgerton is an ex-con who spent two years and change in prison on a 2-5 year sentence for burglary at the Pendleton Reformatory in Indiana, dubbed by then-President Lyndon Johnson as “the single worst prison in the U.S.” Since his release, he has earned a B.A. from Indiana University and a MFA in Writing from Vermont College. This will be the fifteenth book he has published. His career for many years as an outlaw and criminal lend an air of rare verisimilitude to his crime novels.