Reply To: What is it about John Fleming that invokes this type of reaction in Gamache?
Gamache lives with the full unredacted savagery of Fleming’s crimes everyday of his life. He is one of the few people who have witnessed the full extent of this evilness. To realize that someone this inhuman has been released into society is more than a man like Gamache can stand. He cannot understand how people can be so weak and easily manipulated into allowing Fleming to go free. More importantly, Gamache is also angry with himself for letting this beast get into his head. Now Fleming’s free to terrorize everyone and everything that Gamache loves. For someone as self-disciplined and in control of his actions to come apart at the seams is testimony to the horror this mad man, Fleming, can unleash on society.