"Kenneth McDuff personified not only evil, but how a corrupt parole and prison system turned a monster loose on an unsuspecting public. Gary Lavergne chronicles how it was possible for one man to cause a massive overhaul of the Texas criminal justice system."  Robert Riggs, Peabody Award Winning Investigative Reporter

"Readers, prepare to shudder." Anne Dingus, Texas Monthly

"The story of Kenneth McDuff's career in crime is horrific, so bad, in fact, that the reader may have to take breaks from what surely qualifies as both an exhaustive and exhausting examination of one man's depredations and their effect on the Texas criminal justice system... The examination is the work of an expert..."  Mary Kate Tripp for the Amarillo Sunday News-Globe

"In Lavergne, McDuff has found an author capable of grasping the horror and brutality of his life and that of the subculture from which he sprang." Stephen Goode for Insight, a supplement to the Washington [DC] Times