"First published in Spain in 2018 by Anagrama"--Title page verso.

Translated from original Spanish title: Magnetizado : una conversación con Ricardo Melogno.

"The following text is the condensed result of over ninety hours of dialogue with Richard Melogno, recorded between November 2014 and December 2015. ... My edits respect the words of the interviewee while compressing, grouping, and organizing them chronologically and thematically, with the goal of providing structure to his story." -- page opposite verso

One of Argentina's most innovative writers captures the voice of a man who in 1982 murdered four taxi drivers without any apparent motive, using interviews, forensic documents, and newspaper clippings to bring his story to life.

Over the course of one week in September 1982, the bodies of four taxi drivers were found in Buenos Aires. Each murder was carried out with the same cold precision. The assailant: a nineteen-year-old boy, odd and taciturn, who gave the impression of being completely sane. More than thirty years later, Busqued began visiting Ricardo Melogno in prison. His book is at once hypnotic and unnerving, constructed from forensic documents, newspaper clippings, and interviews with Melogno himself. Busqued allows Melogno to describe his way of retreating from the world and to explain his crimes as best he can. The focus slowly shifts from the crimes themselves, to Melogno's mistreatment and mis-diagnosis while in prison, to his current fate: incarcerated in perpetuity despite having served his full sentence.

In English, translated from the Spanish.