Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI

Robert K. Ressler · Tom Shachtman

Jul 2016 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Tom Perkins

About this audiobook

Face-to-face with some of America's most terrifying killers, FBI veteran and ex-Army CID colonel Robert Ressler learned from them how to identify the unknown monsters who walk among us-and put them behind bars. Now the man who coined the phrase "serial killer" and advised Thomas Harris on The Silence of the Lambs shows how he has tracked down some of the nation's most brutal murderers. Just as it happened in The Silence of the Lambs, Ressler uses the evidence at a crime scene to put together a psychological profile of the killers. From the victims they choose, to the way they kill, to the often grotesque souvenirs they take with them, Ressler unlocks the identities of these vicious killers for the police to capture. Join Ressler as he takes you on the hunt for America's most dangerous psychopaths. It is a terrifying journey you will not forget.

Ratings and reviews

Fascinating, thorough and well written. I think the narrator sounded or made it sound somewhat pompous but I don't think it's supposed to come off that way.

About the author

Robert K. Ressler (1937-2013) was an expert in the area of violent criminal offenders and a twenty-year veteran of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He innovated many of the programs which led to the formulation of the FBI's National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime.

Tom Shachtman has written or coauthored more than thirty-five books, including Gentlemen Scientists and Revolutionaries, Rumspringa, and Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold. He has also written documentaries for ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, and the BBC.

An award-winning audio engineer for over forty years, Tom Perkins has expanded his skills to narrating and has more than sixty titles to his credit. He learned by working with the world's best voice talent during his career, and he continues to engineer a variety of projects.