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An account of Silas Cool, a gunman who shot the driver of a Seattle bus in transit, causing it to plunge off a bridge into an apartment building, is accompanied by nine other true crime cases that explore the alarming nature of the murderous psyche
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A tour de force from America's best true-crime writer...impossible to put down (KIRKUS REVIEW)
The undisputed master crime writer of the Eighties and Nineties (John Saul)
Devastatingly accurate insight (NEW YORK TIMES)
From the Author
Ten Homicide Cases I Could Never Forget
Many of my readers have asked me to write a book that had many shorter cases in it, something they could read on the bus or at the beach. A Rage to Kill is a response to their requests.
Over the past 30 years, I have researched 1400 murder cases. Some are so unusual that they stand out in my memory. People kill one another for all manner of reasons: jealousy, revenge, anger, in the act of committing another felony, over love gone wrong--or even accidentally. However, the cases in this sixth volume of my True Crime Files demonstrate some of the most bizarre reasons for murder I ever encountered.
There are two long pieces. The first is an inside look at the mysterious crash of a huge bus that went off the tallest bridge in Seattle in November, 1998: "A Bus to Nowhere." The second is called "Profile of a Spree Killer." You will also find "That Was No Lady," "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town," "To An Athlete Dying Young," "The Killer Who Planted His Own Clues," " As Close As a Brother," and many other true cases.
Some of these case studies are very sad and some still strike me as absolutely unbelievable.
I hope you find them interesting!
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- PublisherG K Hall & Co
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0783888260
- ISBN 13 9780783888262
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages471
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