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| Advance
Praise |
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| “In a book that
combines engrossing writing with seasoned insight,
McCrary, a 25-year veteran of the FBI and a former
criminal profiler in the bureau's renowned behavioral
science unit, has teamed with Ramsland, a forensic
psychologist and writer, to produce a detailed account
of criminal investigative analysis. He describes
10 cases that provoked frenzied storms of media
attention in their time including the FBI standoff
with the David Koresh and the Branch Davidians,
the murder of two Canadian teenagers by a husband
and wife team, the hunt for an international serial
killer and the infamous Sam Sheppard murder case
which came to court for a third time nearly 50 years
after it occurred. |
| ...The book offers plenty
of shockingly grisly and strange details to fascinate
and horrify. But McCrary's levelheaded professionalism
and consummate expertise elevates his work above
the throng...” |
Publishers
Weekly
May 26, 2003 |
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| “Gregg McCrary
has distinguished himself as one of the world’s
foremost criminal profilers and crime analysts.
With special training in mental discipline, he looks
beyond the obvious and catches what other profilers
miss. Read this book and you will understand how
his insight has helped solve many difficult crimes.” |
Dr.
Henry Lee
Director of the Connecticut
State Police Forensic Science Laboratory and author
of Cracking Cases |
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| “The Unknown
Darkness is one of the most immensely readable
and gripping accounts of serial murder I have ever
read. Gregg McCrary is one of the great detectives
of his time. He helped create the science of criminal
profiling. Those amazing early days at Quantico,
fictionalized in the The Silence of the Lambs,
have now become almost as legendary as the Wild
West.” |
Colin
Wilson
Author of more than sixty
books, including Serial Killers: A Study in
the Psychology of Violence |
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| “This is a must
read for true crime fans! The Unknown Darkness
is an intense close-up look at the hunter and the
hunted in incredible games of cat-and-mouse! Behavioral
Science veteran McCrary is both modest and brilliant
as he tracks down the predators among us. Beautifully
written, expert analysis on high-profile killers!
True crime readers and students of the criminal
mind will leap upon this book and they won’t
be disappointed! A masterpiece!” |
Ann
Rule
Author of The Stranger
Beside Me,
Every Breath You Take and A Heart Full
of Lies |
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