Binding: Paperback
Description: ** THE Instant NEW YORK Times Bestseller**" It's a mark of the highest honor when I say it's even more riveting than an episode of Dateline'." The New York Times From Paul Holes the detective who found the Golden State Killer Unmasked is a memoir that "grabs its reader in a stranglehold and proves more fascinating than fiction and darker than any noir narrative." (L a Magazine) I order another bourbon neat. This is the drink that will flip the switch. I don t even know how I got here to this place to this point. Something is happening to me lately. I m drinking too much. My sheets are soaking wet when I wake up from nightmares of decaying corpses. I order another drink and swig it trying to forget about the latest case I can t shake. Crime solving for me is more complex than the challenge of the hunt or the process of piecing together a scientific puzzle. The thought of good people suffering drives me for better or worse to the point of obsession. People always ask how I am able to detach from the horrors of my work. Part of it is an innate capacity to compartmentalize; the rest is experience and exposure and I ve had plenty of both. But I have always taken pride in the fact that I can keep my feelings locked up to get the job done. It's only been recently that it feels like all that suppressed darkness is beginning to seep out. When I look back at my long career there is a lot I am proud of. I have caught some of the most notorious killers of the twenty - first century and brought justice and closure for their victims and families. I want to tell you about a lifetime solving these cold cases from Laci Peterson to Jaycee Dugard to the Pittsburg homicides to yes my twenty - year - long hunt for the Golden State Killer. But a deeper question eats at me as I ask myself at what cost? I have sacrificed relationships joy even fatherhood because the pursuit of evil always came first. Did I make the right choice? It's something I grapple with every day. Yet as I stand in the spot where a young girl took her last breath as I look into the eyes of her family I know that for me there has never been a choice. I don t know if I can solve your case I whisper. But I promise I will do my best. It is a promise I know I can keep.
Title: Unmasked My Life Solving America's Cold Cases
Author(s): Holes Paul
Publisher: Celadon Books
Barcode: 9781250622808
Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 10/3/2023
Category: True Crime