I have been reading books from hundreds of authors over the last 18 years and have not read one as sick as this one until this week! WHY oh WHY on earth would you ever want to write so much sxual violence in one book let alone a small one like 'Beware'. I worry about the sanity of Richard Laymon and his personal state of mind with regards to so much unessecary violence and death which could have been left out (we all got the story line we did not need you to repeat the same incidents at least 3 times over and over again)! This is the first book I have read by this Author and quite frankly have been put off.