Whoever Fights Monsters: A Brillant FBI Detective's Career Long War Against Serial Killers
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Read this book and my hats off to those who study and bring to justice monsters.
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You have in your hands a free gift. This book is yours to do with as you wish...read it, share it, keep it, pass it on!
I've registered this at BookCrossing.com so that I can keep up on where it goes, who reads it, and what they thought of it. If you like the BookCrossing concept, you might want to register yourself with a screen name, so that you can keep up on this book, and maybe release others also! It’s all confidential (you’re known only by your screen name and no one is ever given your e-mail address), fascinating, and fun!
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Journal Entry 4 by freezone at -- Bookbox, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- USA on Friday, December 31, 2021
I found this book to be extremely interesting and easy to read. It is an interesting mix of psychology and criminology. The writer was a trailblazer in creating profiling of serial killers for the FBI. He spends a bit of time explaining the bureaucratic "how to's" in creating a new field of study at a place that's pretty set in its ways (and a culture in thrall to J. Edgar Hoover, whose heyday was the 1930's and 40's.)
He makes the subject area clear, and helps explain how something so horrifying as a serial killer is created. I realize now that I never want to read the books based on his study (which he only mentions in the final chapter.) I made sure while reading this not too visualize the crimes described, that is, not to think about them too much, which would have been too frightening. That's how I was able to read the book without becoming frightened. If anything, it convinces you to be cautious in realistic ways, to protect yourself from victimization.
Passing along to a new reader, in a LFL or possibly a book box.
He makes the subject area clear, and helps explain how something so horrifying as a serial killer is created. I realize now that I never want to read the books based on his study (which he only mentions in the final chapter.) I made sure while reading this not too visualize the crimes described, that is, not to think about them too much, which would have been too frightening. That's how I was able to read the book without becoming frightened. If anything, it convinces you to be cautious in realistic ways, to protect yourself from victimization.
Passing along to a new reader, in a LFL or possibly a book box.
