zoemaja 's review for:

Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI by Robert K. Ressler

2.0

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I didn't love it. I have read or heard about most of his cases, but in much more interesting formats from other sources. The writing is dry and he comes off as kind of a know-it-all. His half textbook, half self-congratulatory tone gets on my nerves. I know it was written in 1993, so perhaps I shouldn't let it bother me, but his promoting the racist conclusions of the Kitty Genovese case sent me over the edge. This is not the kind of true crime I enjoy. Way too much toxic masculinity and I am all set with the white male savior theme.