![]() ![]() The Michael Erler my peers and classmates see is this socially awkward misfit. I relate to Aaron Stampler because all my life I’ve been lost, shy and alone. Right there, at the penultimate line of the novel, is where my story begins. Vail manages to summon Roy out of Aaron on the witness stand and wins the case, but his triumph is short-lived, as StamplerĪdmits to him privately afterward that Vail’s initial suspicions were correct.ĭumbfounded, Vail asks, “So there never was a Roy?” There’s the shy, innocent Aaron the world sees and the cocky, sociopathic “Roy,” who reveals himself only to Vail to gleefully boast about committing the murder.Īt first Vail is skeptical about Roy’s authenticity, but gradually becomes a believer. ![]() It becomes evident soon after that insanity will be Stampler’s only plausible defense, as Vail discovers that his client ![]() Martin Vail, the hotshot defense attorney, takes the case pro bono,īecause he’s arrogant enough to believe he can’t be beaten in court. (Edward Norton was brilliant as Stampler, but Richard Gere mailed it in as Martin Vail and ruined the film.)įor those unfamiliar with the story, Aaron Stampler is an altar boy in his late teens charged with the brutal murder of the archbishop of Chicago. Coincidentally the big screen adaptation of the novel came out that same year. I have used the name as a pseudonym on message boards and blogs ever since I became an Internet addict in 1996, my freshman year at San Diego State. My literary hero and role model is a fictional serial killer.Īaron Stampler, the antagonist of the novel “Primal Fear” by the late William Diehl, has evolved over the ![]()
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