Book: Easy Prey by John Sandford

Murder and mayhem and decadence and drugs and guns.

"They're just souls trying to get through life. It's the culture that does it. It's a death culture, and it's here, right now. It comes out of TV, it comes out of magazines, it comes out of the Internet, it comes out of video games. Look at that television set that poor Martin Scott had. The biggest, most expensive thing he owned, except for this truck. And all those video games. And he was a hardworking man; worked hard. But the culture burned him out, reached out through that satellite dish and grabbed him."

This book was published 12 years ago which is sobering, especially as our nation is currently in a frenzy about mental health, popular culture and guns.