Whoever Fights Monsters - Hardcover

Ressler, Robert K.; Shachtman, Tom

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312078838 ISBN 13: 9780312078836

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1992

Synopsis

A chronicle of one man's life-long career tracking serial killers introduces the FBI detective who pioneered psychological profiling as a way to catch some of the nation's most dangerous and deranged criminals. National ad/promo. Tour.

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Review:

This book is an overview of the career of the FBI man who nearly single-handedly created the system for personality profiling of violent offenders. If there's a big-time multiple murderer from about 1950 until now who hasn't been interviewed by Robert Ressler, he probably refused the honor. Indispensable reading for serial killer mavens, and better written than John Douglas and Mark Olshaker's Mindhunter, this book is packed with fascinating details from dozens of cases: The killer John Joubert, for example, started his life of cruelty as a kid one day when he was riding his bike with a sharpened pencil in his hand. He rode up next to a little girl who was walking, and stabbed her in the back with the pencil. Ouch!

About the Author:

Robert K. Ressler (1937-2013) was an expert in the area of violent criminal offenders and a twenty-year veteran of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He innovated many of the programs which led to the formulation of the FBI's National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime.

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0312078838
• ISBN 13: 9780312078836
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256