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Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI
by Tom Shachtman, Robert K. Ressler
challenging
dark
informative
slow-paced
This was an interesting book but I found it very dry, almost like a lecture delivered in a monotone & where the lecturer loves to talk. It’s a fascinating subject - understanding why & how serial killers act - and the work that the FBI started in this field is immense. Alongside the cases & the different profiles, it’s also a history of the Behavioural Sciences Unit at the FBI, which is almost as interesting as the cases covered. This is more psychology-based than John Douglas’s Mindhunter, but what information is relayed about the cases is fascinating.
This was first published in 1992 - subsequent editions do not appear to contain updates, so it does feel dated when reading this 30 years after publication.
This was first published in 1992 - subsequent editions do not appear to contain updates, so it does feel dated when reading this 30 years after publication.