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Whoever Fights Monsters : My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI (St. Martin's True Crime Library)
Author: Robert K. Ressler, Thomas Schachtman

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Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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ISBN-13: 9780312950446 - ISBN-10: 0312950446
Publication Date: 3/15/1993
Pages: 289


Other Versions of this Book: Hardcover, Paperback

Book Description:
Face-to-face with some of America's most terrifying killers, FBI veteran and ex-Army CID colonel Robert Ressler learned form then how to identify the unknown monsters who walk among us--and put them behind bars. Now the man who coined the phrase "serial killer" and advised Thomas Harris on The Silence of the Lambs shows how is able to track down some of today's most brutal murderers.

Just as it happened in The Silence of the Lambs, Ressler 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 of the police to capture.

And with his discovery that serial killers share certain violent behaviors, Ressler's gone behind prison walls to hear the bizarre first-hand stories countless convicted murderers. 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 toady's most dangerous psychopaths. It is a terrifying journey you will not forget.

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Top Member Book Reviews

Brenda R. (nurse) wrote on 11/18/2007...

3 member(s) found this review helpful.

A good book that gives much information about profiling serial killers. It also gives insight to many serial killers that are well known such as Ted Bundy,Jeffery Dahmer,Charles Manson,Edmund Kemper,John Wayne Gacy,John Joubert and Gerald Schaefer. Robert Ressler worked tracking serial killers for the FBI.

Jacki R. wrote on 2/4/2007...

2 member(s) found this review helpful.

There are points early in the book where I felt he was almost bragging too much - but all the other famous profilers mention him as the one they learned from - and the original writing was a few years ago. A DEFINITE recommendation for those interested in the development of modern day profiling and origins of what is just "accepted truth" now - things that were theories and ideas back then! VERY GOOD choice for those interested in true crime!

Neomi M. (truecrimefan) wrote on 6/16/2006...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

The FBI agent who claims to have coined the term serial killer recounts his interviews with some of the most notorious of them including Charles Manson, John Wayne Gacy, and Ted Bundy.

Jena B. (gna2772) wrote on 9/28/2005...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

This is the 1st book I read about such a subject. This book honestly turned me on to reading on the subjects of serial killers & death. I would recomend this as good reading for anyone who is fascinated about the darker side of the world we live in.


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Annette P. wrote on 1/20/2009...


Very insightful and interesting.

Alice K. (dragonlayd) wrote on 1/20/2007...


True crime - includes photos of such as Dahlmer, Bundy, Gacy & Manson.

Bobbie L. (nascargal) wrote on 4/3/2006...


This is an amazing story about an FBI profiler.

Kathie G. (Kathiejg7) wrote on 1/28/2006...


Very informative and interesting!


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