This book had its moments but, overall, it was a disappointment. The two qualities that saved me from applying a one star rating were Blatty's trademark poetic descriptions and a clever ending that I never saw coming. Whereas his earlier works soared, this book dragged until the very end and was ...
TTKK is a truly remarkable book, albeit one with very little intrinsic value. It's about Colonel Hudson Kane, who comes to the Bela Slovik mansion as a famous psychologist tasked with "curing" its nutty Air Force inmates, among whom is the astronaut who flaked out prior to America's first mission...