Catch the Devil(书名《抓住魔鬼》). By Pamela Colloff. Knopf(美国知名出版社克诺夫); 320 pages; $32. Endeavour; £22
《抓住魔鬼》。作者：帕梅拉·科洛夫。克诺夫出版社；320页；32美元。奋进出版社；22英镑。
The Jackal. By Joby Warrick. Scribner(美国出版社斯克里布纳); 384 pages; $30. Swift Press; £22
《豺狼》。作者：乔比·沃里克。斯克里布纳出版社；384页；30美元。斯威夫特出版社；22英镑。
BIOGRAPHICALLY, the two men could not be more different. One is a worldly(世故的，老练的) Venezuelan polyglot(通晓多种语言的人), the son of a champagne communist(香槟共产主义者（指生活奢侈的左派）) who named him and his brothers after a “hero” of the Soviet revolution(苏联革命（指1917年俄国革命）). The other was the son of a violent refinery worker; he grew up in a shabby(破旧的，寒酸的) one-bedroom house in south-eastern Texas and volunteered for Lyndon Johnson’s presidential campaign. The former became the most notorious terrorist of the 20th century and is living out the end of his days(度过余生) in a prison outside Paris. The other cycled through(接连经历，轮番更换) jails, wives and multiple personae(人格面具，身份（persona的复数）) before dying, overweight and alone, in a nursing home near Dallas in 2020.
从生平来看，这两个人简直天差地别。一个是世故的委内瑞拉通晓多种语言者，父亲是“香槟共产主义者”，以苏联革命的“英雄”之名给他和兄弟们命名。另一个是暴戾炼油厂工人的儿子，在得克萨斯州东南部破旧的一居室房子里长大，曾为林登·约翰逊的总统竞选做过志愿者。前者成为20世纪最臭名昭著的恐怖分子，如今在巴黎郊外的一所监狱里度过余生。后者则在监狱、妻子和多重身份之间辗转，最终于2020年在达拉斯附近的一家疗养院里孤独地死去，死时肥胖臃肿。