cover image Sudden Fury

Sudden Fury

Leslie Walker. St. Martin's Press, $4.95 (385pp) ISBN 978-0-312-92307-5

In 1984, 17-year-old Larry sp ok/pk Swartz killed his parents in an Annapolis, Md., suburb. One of the couple's three adopted children, he was shy and undemonstrative. ``His background and the circumstances leading to murder are the thrust of this searching study by Walker, less a true-crime re-creation than the story of a tortured being,'' concluded PW. Photos. (Aug.)