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Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI
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Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI Mass market paperbound - 1993

by Robert K. Ressler; Tom Shachtman; Charles Spicer (Editor)

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True-crime author Anne Rule calls this "the real thing . . . absolutely mesmerizing". The FBI expert who coined the term "serial killer" and advised Thomas Harris on The Silence of the Lambs tells how he uses evidence from a crime scene to construct a psychological profile of the killer--and unlock the secret of their identities. 8 pages of photos. Martin's.

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LEARN THE TRUE STORY OF ONE OF THE FBI PROFILERS WHO COINED THE PHRASE "SERIAL KILLER"

Face-to-face with some of America's most terrifying killers, FBI veteran Robert K. Ressler learned how to identify the unknown monsters who walk among us -- and put them behind bars. In Whoever Fights Monsters, Ressler--the inspiration for the character Agent Bill Tench in David Fincher's hit TV show Mindhunter--shows how he was able to track down some of the country's most brutal murderers.

Ressler, the FBI Agent and ex-Army CID colonel who advised Thomas Harris on The Silence of the Lambs, used the evidence at a crime scene to put together a psychological profile of the killers. From the victims they choose to the way they kill to the often grotesque souvenirs they take with them--Ressler unlocks the identities of these vicious killers. And with his discovery that serial killers share certain violent behaviors, Ressler goes behind prison walls to hear bizarre first-hand stories from countless convicted murderers, including Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy; Edmund Kemper; and Son of Sam. Getting inside the mind of a killer to understand how and why he kills is one of the FBI's most effective ways of helping police bring in killers who are still at large.

Join Ressler as he takes you on the hunt for the world's most dangerous psychopaths in this terrifying journey you will not forget.

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Russ Vorpagel was a legend in the Bureau, six four and 260 pounds, a former police homicide detective in Milwaukee who also had a law degree and was an expert in sex crimes and bomb demolition.

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  • Title Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI
  • Author Robert K. Ressler; Tom Shachtman; Charles Spicer (Editor)
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition Eighth Printing
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher St. Martin's Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1993-03-15
  • Features Index
  • ISBN 9780312950446 / 0312950446
  • Weight 0.35 lbs (0.16 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.9 in (17.02 x 10.41 x 2.29 cm)
  • Category True Crime / Espionage
  • Library of Congress subjects Homicide - United States, Serial murders - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 92004013
  • Dewey Decimal Code 363.259

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  • Publishers Weekly, 02/01/1993, Page 0

About the author

Robert K. Ressler (1937-2013) was a supervisory special agent of the FBI as a reserve colonel in the U.S. Army's Criminal Investigation Division (CID) before retiring. He later served as the director of Forensic Behavioral Services, a business dedicated to training, learning, consulting, and expert witness testimony. He is the author of Whoever Fights Monsters and the inspiration for one of the main characters in the Netflix Original Series Mindhunter.

Tom Shachtman is the co-author with Robert Ressler of Whoever Fights Monsters and Justice is Served. He's also the author of several books of history, including How the French Saved America.

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