Apt Pupil

Apt Pupil
by Stephen King

This was a dark one. I picked it up because it was by Stephen King.  

It's in the 70s and Todd is a good student in high school.  He recognizes one of his neighbors, that his neighbor is not who he says he is.  Todd threatens to turn Mr Dussander in to the authorities unless he tells him stories, in horrifying detail, of when he was a Nazi and worked at a death camp.  Soon, both are having nightmares, and it's almost as if they feed off of each other and it just gets darker and darker.

Todd seems to spend most of his time over at Mr. Dussander's and I wonder why his parents never think anything of it.  Todd also easily fakes his grades to his parents, but this was before a teacher probably would have just called or e-mailed the parents directly instead of sending a note home in the backpack that may or many not actually get to the parent.

So many times during the novel could things have ended different, instead it just keeps getting darker until there is no going back.