Gordon Kerr - Fugitives: Dramatic Accounts of Life on the Run

Fugitives is a collection of several dozen stories of fugitives, ranging from POWs to wild west outlaws to modern criminals. The idea behind the book is excellent, and it had the potential to be incredibly interesting.


Unfortunately, however, it was generally a very poorly written book. The grammar and punctuation were horrendous, making it necessary to reread some sentences multiple times before the meaning became clear. Similarly, on a number of occasions Kerr mixed up the names of the people involved (at one point a man named Gunther was referred to as Gerhard for a page). Kerr also made a number of factual errors, including the dates of the Korean War. If he made mistakes in such basic facts, there is no telling how many more serious errors slipped past the editors. Finally, the narrative structure was generally poor, as Kerr jumped around in his writing leaving me baffled as to what the order of events was on a number of occasions.

I would recommend against Fugitives. The subject matter is interesting, but the book itself is too flawed to make it worth reading.