Democratic Accountability and the Use of Force in International Law Book

"They say one main thing about psychokillers is they have no boundaries, they get mixed up with self and other, is the way they put it, they're so essentially self-loathing is the implication, that they're killing all signs of themselves and their various personal traumas. People say this, or hear each other say it, or say it to each other in the face of the news or the psychokiller flick, and they shake their heads and say it's simply monstrous, it's incomprehensible.
But it's hard to make anything of that when you feel it yourself: you feel no boundaries, you feel self and other, it feels incomprehensible, and even though it feels dangerous, it feels like empathy, and it feels like love.
It's hard not to see yourself as part of the species, and the species has divided the world into a food chain that's not about food, it's about the chain, it's about this perpetual looping serial cycle where you're consumed and consuming, you're beaten and beating, your eyes are swimming through pools of tears and the tears are swimming in the puddle of your eyes."

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some absolutely breathtaking sentences in this novel, all the more so for their frequent violence.
a meditation on the psychokiller and sexual/gendered violence that (plot spoiler!) in a way rewrites the serial killer narrative by infusing the psychokiller/girl relationship with love and tenderness, a (female) character who "collects" girls in her mind out of desire/want but leaves them unharmed, fully animated, if "owned" in some way by her watching. that's a simplistic reading, though - there is a ton of psychological complexity to this narrator, and a bevy of innovative storytelling tactics on display.