In His Sights: A True Story of Love and Obsession
by Harper

	In His Sights: A True Story of Love and Obsession
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Book Description

<p> What if the man you'd loved for years vows, when you leave him, to destroy you? What if he transforms into a ruthless tormentor, stealing your freedom, undermining your sanity, and threatening your safety? </p> <p> This is not a fictional scenario. It is Kate Brennan's life. </p> <p> Kate is a well-respected writer and scholar, a highly independent woman with simple tastes and a complicated romantic past that leave her perfectly content with singlehood. So when she meets Paul—a wealthy, charismatic businessman with a great deal of free time—she's wary of getting involved. Eventually, though, his polished charm and relentless wooing win her over. Things move quickly, and it is only after the two have moved in together that Kate discovers the serial infidelity, the unbalanced psyche, and the sordid secrets lurking under the Mr. Right facade. </p> <p> Kate lets Paul into her life with trepidation, and when she ends the relationship, she finds she can't get him out of it. With limitless resources, he dedicates himself to stalking her: he tracks her movements, arranges for people to break into her home, interferes with her work, and even relocates to her new neighborhood. His harassment lasts for more than a decade and, as Paul is still at large, it continues to turn Kate's life upside down today. </p> <p> This visceral memoir not only lays bare the mind of a stalker, but also shows how a smart, successful woman can fall prey to a warped and powerful man who has the money and connections to keep her under his watchful eye. Both frightening and insightful, <i>In His Sights</i> is a gripping tale of one woman's descent into the dark side of love and how she has fought—and still struggles—to free herself. </p>

Reader Reviews

"In His Sights" is a chronicle of one woman's experiences with the man who would become her stalker. She writes under an assumed name and does not give many details about her life because her stalker is still living and occasionally still tries to go after her. This is a book written with a lot of fear--a lot of well-deserved fear--and contains a lot of valuable insights about the human condition, insights earned through days and weeks and years of sweating and hoping. It is extremely well-written--the woman is a writer under her real name and it shows--the memoir, for the most part, is gripping and contains a very readable balance of the different aspects of her life with her stalker.

I do have a complaint, though, and it stems from the first part of the book--the part chronicling the relationship before the stalking. Frankly, I don't think the author's rendering is completely honest--at least emotionally. I think she imbibes too much of what she learned afterwards into the story and I wished she had talked more about what she felt at the time. During the first part, she just seemed too naive. I guess this is part of the point, and she does reconcile this a bit during the second part, but I think she could have admitted that she didn't see some of the dangers. The impression the first part gives is that she saw the dangers, recognized them and then ignored them. I also think the way she ascribes everything in her relationships to her familial life is overly simplistic and the result of too much therapy.

That all being said, this book is outstanding. Once the second part begins, the rest of it is all worthwhile. It's an important and interesting journey for anyone to learn from and it is so easy to read.