Ann Rule

A Rage to Kill and Other True Cases

Anne Rule's Crime Files, Vol. 6

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Produktbeschreibung

Acclaimed for her "devastatingly accurate insight" (The New York Times Book Review) into the criminal mind, Ann Rule has chronicled the most fascinating cases of our time in her bestselling Crime Files series. For this sixth stunning collection, Rule has culled from her private files the most-asked-about homicide cases -- riveting accounts of seemingly normal men and women who are compelled by a murderous rage to suddenly lash out at innocent victims. Torn from the headlines, here is the case that shocked a nation: the Seattle city bus ride that turned to mayhem and murder at the hands of a gunman. Ann Rule unmasks the forces that drove quiet, clean-cut Silas Cool to shoot the driver, causing the bus to plunge off the Aurora Bridge into an apartment building. The catastrophe left three dead -- including Cool -- and dozens injured. While the scene unfolds as in a terrifying movie, Rule finds very real answers to the haunting question "how could this happen?" -- and expertly constructs the unseen chain of events that resulted in an explosive and shattering tragedy. Included here are nine other sensational cases that illuminate Rule's unique and authoritative view of the human psyche gone temporarily berserk. No one can match Rule's meticulous research, or reveal the motives to murder in such explicit and chilling detail. You may think you know who is safe and who is dangerous; in A RAGE TO KILL, Ann Rule frighteningly shows that none of us are truly protected from the flashes of irrational violence that can erupt from the killers among us.

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New York Times bestselling author Ann Rule brings several riveting accounts of seemingly normal men and women who are compelled by a murderous rage to suddenly lash out in this installment of her Crime Files.

Ann Rule dives into one of Seattle's most infamous crimes: a city bus ride that turned into mayhem and murder at the hands of a gunman. With her signature "devastatingly accurate insight" (The New York Times Book Review), she unmasks the forces that drove quiet, clean-cut Silas Cool to shoot the driver, causing the bus to plunge off the Aurora Bridge into an apartment building.

Included here are nine other cases that illuminate Rule's unique and authoritative view of the human psyche gone temporarily berserk. In A Rage to Kill, Ann Rule frighteningly shows that none of us are truly protected from the flashes of irrational violence that can erupt from the killers among us.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Import / Pocket Books
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 172mm x 108mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 196g
• ISBN-13: 9780671025342
• ISBN-10: 0671025341
• Artikelnr.: 21920061

Autorenporträt

Ann Rule wrote thirty-five New York Times bestsellers, all of them still in print. Her first bestseller was The Stranger Beside Me, about her personal relationship with infamous serial killer Ted Bundy. A former Seattle police officer, she used her firsthand expertise in all her books. For more than three decades, she was a powerful advocate for victims of violent crime. She lived near Seattle and died in 2015.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents

Foreword

A Bus to Nowhere

The Killer Who Planted His Own Clues

Born to Kill?

As Close as a Brother

Profile of a Spree Killer

The Lost Lady

To an Athlete Dying Young

Ruby, Don?t Take Your Love to Town

That Was No Lady

The Killer Who Talked Too Much