Tuesday, August 14, 2018

In My TBR Stack:

In the Name of the Children: An FBI Agent's Relentless Pursuit of the Nation's Worst Predators
by Jeffrey L. Rinek and Marilee Strong
BenBella Books
Trade Paperback

From the publisher's website:

FBI Special Agent Jeff Rinek had a gift for getting confessions from criminals—bank robbers, serial killers, terrorists, and those he dedicated most of his 30-year career with the Bureau to hunting down: child predators. 
Rinek worked hundreds of investigations involving crimes against children: from stranger abduction to serial homicide to ritualized sexual abuse. There is no more important—or more brutal—job in law enforcement, and few have been more successful than Rinek at solving these sort of cases.
One of the most surprising confessions he managed to obtain was from a budding serial killer named Cary Stayner to four horrific slayings known as the Yosemite Park Murders, an accomplishment made more extraordinary by the fact that the FBI nearly pinned the crimes on the wrong suspects. Rinek’s recounting of that confession and what he learned about Stayner provides perhaps the most revelatory look ever inside the psyche of a serial killer and a privileged glimpse into the art of interrogation.
In the Name of the Children takes readers into the trenches of real-time investigations where every second counts and any wrong decision or overlooked fact can have tragic repercussions. Rinek offers an insider’s perspective of the actual case agents and street detectives who are the boots on the ground in this war at home. By placing us inside the heart and mind of an unflinchingly honest and remarkably self-reflective investigator, we will see with our own eyes what it takes—and what it costs—to try to keep our children safe and to bring to justice those who prey on them.


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