I STILL felt sorry for them..

Knowing they were going to be busted and all, as the book progressed.

I was especially shocked as it dawned that not just Marty but potentially ALL of them with exceptions of Heather and Derek Dzvirko, were a 'seeking the death penalty" situation.


Probably I would not have, if I saw the movie only.

The movie is all over the place and does little to flesh out who Bobby "Kent" was.
In the movie he is just a bit of an ahole who roughs Marty up a little from time to time, to keep himself as the Hardy of their Laurel and Hardy act.
But this guy did far more than shown in movie, this guy was really dark.

There is very little, if any, twinge of pity for him , from me, even as the book talks you moment by moment through his horrific and painful murder.
You still mostly keep thinking back to the harsh shyt that this guy has done, things that do not even have Marty as the victim, and think, well, fk him.

Their main victims are themselves and each other, excluding Bobby.
Their lives are all over or at best they are out of commission for several years now with a criminal murder jacket to deal with in their lives, because they took it upon themselves to remove this POS.

It is Marty's weakness which is fatal. They DID have an alternative simple obvious strategy to the Bobby problem.
Obviously Marty just tells him to fck off, for good, and means it.They all just blow the guy off.
It is possible that being the psycho that he is, it does not end there, and has unforeseen ramifications for Marty..Bobby may not have let him go quietly, and may have made trouble for either him, or someone else, or for the world itself, or all three.
But that did seem the obvious first option.
Marty just cuts the creep off--, just not literally, with a scuba-diving knife.