 Praised by Bruce Jacobs in "Shelf Awareness" as a "funny memoir and 'true crime' mashup by one of the country's best vagabond raconteurs" and by Cheryl Strayed as "his best book ever", the memoir follows Ballantine's interest in the disappearance of a professor from the town of Chadron, Nebraska.When "Love & Terror" was picked for The Rumpus Book Club, Rumpus publisher Stephen Elliott wrote "everyone is going apeshit.I mean, stark raving mad.