Unabomber: A Desire to Kill

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Regnery Publishing, 1997 - Biography & Autobiography - 550 pages
Robert Graysmith, the man who solved the infamous Zodiac murders, now delivers the complete bone-chilling story of the Unabomber, not only plunging into the complex mind of the bomber, but detailing the longest, most intense, and costliest manhunt in national history. In this true life psychological mystery, Graysmith explores the many roles played by the Unabomber. Introverted math professor; enigmatic hermit; and deadly bomber, who made each explosion more terrifying than the last. Graysmith, one of the nation's foremost experts on serial killers, knows this man as no one else does. Not even the FBI has gone as deep into the Unabomber case as Graysmith. Using exclusive interviews with the bomber's neighbors and his victims, and retracing the Unabomber's steps, Graysmith uncovers the government's deadly mistakes that prolonged the terror and unveils a brilliant but tormented mind that wrought unspeakable violence.

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The Vanishing Professor
1
The Missing Years
15
The Scapegoat Wilderness
21
Copyright

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About the author (1997)

Robert Graysmith's career as an editorial cartoonist for the San Francisco Chronicle led to his access to and interest in the details of the Zodiac murders in the San Francisco area during the late 1960s and 70s. His extremely popular book Zodiac (1986) was reprinted 13 times and translated into French. This exhaustive study of the unsolved crimes received refreshed popularity in 1990, when the New York police blamed it for the copycat killings that were occurring at that time in New York, accusing it of being "a textbook." Other nonfiction works about criminal investigations by Graysmith include: The Murder of Bob Crane (1992), about the death of the star of Hogan's Heroes; and Unibomber: A Desire to Kill (1997).

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