He looked like the total All-American kid..." This novella comes from the book Different Seasons and tends to get looked over for its more famous compatriots Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption and The Body. Both of those are indeed great stories however Apt Pupil and The Breathing Method have stayed with me far longer, possibly because of the propensity of both to send a chill up your spine. The storys main character, who appears to be a boy-next-door type, discovers that one of the people on his street is a Nazi war criminal, Kurt Dussander. He uses this information to blackmail the man into telling him all about the Holocaust, in particular the atrocities he committed. The boys appetite for the gruesome and obscene is more unnerving than the mans crimes and his desires and exploits make for disturbing reading. Although the ending isnt a happy one, it is satisfying.