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by James Jeffrey Paul (Author)
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  • Paperback: 278 pages
  • Publisher: Xlibris Corporation (11 Sep 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1436366267
  • ISBN-13: 978-1436366267
  • Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 66,800 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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    #35 in  Books > Society, Politics & Philosophy > Social Sciences > Law & Disorder > Issues > Serial Killers
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A young man kidnaps his own nephew and makes him his servant and sex slave. He abducts young boys, has his way with them, and, if they "know too much," kills them. He forces his nephew to participate in his crimes and to consign these little victims, sometimes still living, to their graves.

His father is afraid of his own son. His son mocks and abuses him, falsely accuses him of incest and child abuse--and still he supports his son.

His mother loves her boy and will do anything to help him--even commit murder. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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The Gordon Stewart Northcott case--a part of which is fictionalized in the major new Clint Eastwood film CHANGELING, starring Angelina Jolie--is still, eight decades later, one of the most nightmarish in American criminal annals. This book--nearly two decades in the research and writing--tells the whole story for the first time.

Disclaimer: It should be noted that the movie CHANGELING was not based upon this book, nor this book upon it. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting and well researched, 6 Feb 2009
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I tend to review a book I have read when there is no prior review or when I feel that the existing reviews do not cover the same information that I find useful when considering reading a book.

Nothing is Strange With You is a well written and well researched book about Gordon Stewart Northcott containing several photographs and extensive endnotes. Unfortunately it does not contain a bibliography or index which is frustrating at times. Although it is obvious that the author has spent a great deal of time researching Northcott and his trial and in general his account is very well written.

The book attempts to set the crimes Northcott committed in to a social context relating how they were viewed and reported at the time and tries to objectively assess his personality. Personally I considered the author did quite a good job in remaining objective and unbiased simply retelling the story without forcing his own views on the reader. I would like to point out that the author does not reveal his own views on the death penalty but does relate those of people involved with the case at the time and whether they were pro or anti Northcott's sentence.

To some extent I felt the success of the author in finding out so much about Northcott and his family meant that I had very high expectations for how the book would end. James Paul discloses what became of Northcott's parents and his nephew Sanford Clark. However there is very little information about Jessie Clark and her mother, or more importantly the families of the victims whose lives had been ruined and whose suffering the author had managed to convey so well. Another area where more research would have proved very interesting and the author's own opinion would have been useful was whether or not Northcott was guilty of murdering more than the four known victims. The book relates that he was linked to over twenty missing children cases and he later said that he had abducted more, but the book fails to examine this aspect of the case adequately. In one of the last chapters of the book Northcott's father wrote in a letter about how one of the missing children had turned up. I do not want to write a review of the film Changeling but I notice that this was part of the film's plot and yet the author of the book doesn't make anything of this statement or relate what had happened to this child to the reader or whether this statement was even true. I was going to give the book only three points because of the above flaws but I have decided that the volume of research conducted and the fact that the author did find out so much information, and attempted to tie up so many loose ends that I decided to give the book four points.
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