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...JAMES WILLWERTH...
...America's living fear; the noncerebral prospect of a bloody how-to guide; perhaps a fast freak-show visit into the mind of an animal. The one thing a reader does not ex, pect is a troubling, memorable encounter with a human being. Yet that is precisely what James Willwerth produces. To enter this mugger's world means that inexorably, as one of the mugger's friends put it, "you don't think about laws. The way he thinks is as natural as turning on the TV. The laws of the land don't apply...
...When Willwerth found him, his two main girls (one white, one black) were both pregnant, and the pressures on him to make choices and settle into a job were intense. His dreams of making a big score and getting off the street are like jail bars. They hold him in an extraordinary blend of fantasy and reality. "I'd have a country home," says Jones, "but I would never go there, of course, because I don't like the country." He thinks of mugging "like chess." He remembers each victim precisely and prefers to work in the daytime because other...
...Willwerth is a TIME correspondent and the author of a Viet Nam book, Eye in the Last Storm. He intensifies his work with a sharp eye for the rat sitting boldly in the entrance of a flophouse or the menacing sense of the street he feels on his way to the subway after a late-night interview. He has also made the sensible decision not to deny his own presence; he straightforwardly records the fears, anger and liking he feels for his troubled subject?even after Jones tells him, perhaps in a mood of false boasting, that he has committed...
...locked up for life. Nothing less will really reach the Joneses, and nothing like either course seems immediately possible. Meanwhile, Jones has temporarily laid aside his life as a mugger and is working as a hospital orderly as he did once before. How long he will continue neither Willwerth nor Jones himself can guess. ? Jose M.Ferrer...