cover image Forbidden Zone

Forbidden Zone

Michael Lesy. Anchor Books, $7.95 (250pp) ISBN 978-0-385-26034-3

Here analyzing Americans' denial of, and fascination with, death, Lesy visits convicts on death row, homicide detectives, caretakers of AIDS patients and a mercenary killer. ``But this freewheeling report,'' complained PW , ``fails to penetrate the meaning of the deaths, pain and suffering it cooly examines.'' (Feb.)