There’s a California that everyone imagines, a world of Hollywood glitz and Silicon Valley, and then there’s the real California. The one where everything is the color of dirt. Where the speed freaks gangbang on Haight Street, where evil is lurking, where violence erupts like cystic acne. The place was never crazier than the ’60s and the ’70s, a time when Dad transformed from a hippie-hating Reagan voter into a weed-addled swinger with a crash pad in the Valley.

And right in that moment? There’s this guy who calls himself Zodiac. He’s killing kids and cab drivers; he’s a ghost haunting the San Francisco Bay Area. Is he a freak or a square? We don’t know, can never know. All we have is letters and ciphers and a killer who wears a hood and signs his letters with a crosshairs.

Motor Spirit descends into the Californian sewer, down in the depths of Zodiac. Returning to original sources like newspapers and police reports and small-press publications, with extensive literary analysis of Zodiac’s letters, it offers a history stripped of the mystery. We find a Zodiac who embodies the chaos and catastrophes of the American promised land. It’s the portrait of a killer, a place, and a state of mind.

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