SERIAL KILLERS: THE METHOD AND MADNESS OF MONSTERS, a new history book by Peter Vronsky, Releasing on Oct 5 from Penguin USA Berkley Books
SERIAL KILLERS: THE METHOD AND MADNESS OF MONSTERS is a new comprehensive history of serial homicide in both ancient and modern times. The book explores the cultural, political and psychological aspects of serial murder around the world past and present.
(PRWEB) October 4, 2004 - SERIAL KILLERS: THE METHOD AND MADNESS OF MONSTERS
by PETER VRONSKY is a definitive history of serial homicide from the Roman
Empire to the Washington Beltway.
SERIAL KILLERS
looks at past and current issues, controversies and techniques in criminal
profiling, recent advances in categorizing serial killers, new approaches to
psychological research in the mystery of what motivates serial offenders and
features a unique chapter based on FBI research on how to enhance your chances
of surviving if confronted or captured by a serial killer.
Peter Vronsky
explores the history, culture, politics and psychology of serial murder in the
ancient world, in medieval and early modern Europe, in 19th Century USA and
England, and traces its extraordinary rise in the USA and the rest of the world
during the 20th Century.
SERIAL KILLERS: THE METHOD AND MADNESS OF
MONSTERS is a shocking but sober exploration of serial homicide and features
many new photographs never seen before. The book digs deeply into the true
nature of serial homicide and reveals the politics and reality of the so-called
"serial murder and missing children epidemic" which terrorized the American
public in the early 1980s and continues to inspire fear today.
SERIAL
KILLERS provides detailed cases studies of both infamous and lesser known serial
killers. Exhaustively researched with transcripts of interviews with killers,
and featuring up-to-date information on the apprehension and conviction of the
Green River Killer and the Beltway Snipers, Vronsky's one-of-a-kind book covers
every conceivable aspect of an endlessly riveting true-crime
phenomenon.
SERIAL KILLERS: THE METHOD AND MADNESS OF MONSTERS was
inspired by the author's two brief accidental encounters with serial killers
before they were captured: Richard Cottingham, "The Times Square Ripper" in New
York in 1979, who tortured and dismembered five women and Andrei Chikatilo,
"Citizen-X -- The Red Ripper", in Moscow in 1991, who killed an record 53
victims during his monstrous career.
Peter Vronsky is a former
international television news and documentary film producer and is currently
working on his Ph.D. in history at the University of Toronto.
SERIAL
KILLERS: THE METHOD AND MADNESS OF MONSTERS by Peter Vronsky will be released
October 5, 2004 by Penguin USA – Berkley Books.
More information,
excerpts and a table of contents to SERIAL KILLERS can be viewed at:
www.russianbooks.org/killers.htm
The author can be
contacted at:
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SERIAL KILLERS: THE
METHOD AND MADNESS OF MONSTERS by Peter Vronsky
432 Pages,
Illustrated
ISBN: 0425196402
Publisher: Berkley Books
Available:
October 5, 2004
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