- Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: Pinnacle (8 Aug 2011)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0786017473
- ISBN-13: 978-0786017478
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.4 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,183,751 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This title highlights hospital horror. Gaunt and ghostlike, Charles Cullen was a lifelong misfit who quietly became one of the most prolific serial killers in U.S. history. Over the course of sixteen years, he walked the hallways of hospitals and nursing homes in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, where he worked as a nurse, 'ministering' to the elderly and other gravely ill patients in critical care units. The self-appointed grim reaper played a cruel game, deciding which of his charges should die...and snuffing out their lives with fatal drug overdoses.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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A GRIM STORY - MORE FRIGHTENING BECAUSE IT IS TRUE,
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This review is from: Death Angel (Pinnacle True Crime) (Mass Market Paperback)
"Nurse" as defined by Webster is one who cares for the infirm, one who attempts to cure and alleviate suffering. Forget our traditional view of a nurse when you open the pages of "Death Angel," a grim, cold-chill true story of serial killer, Charles Cullen.Penned by writer Clifford L. Linedecker and Zach T. Martin, the son of Cullen's first known victim, "Death Angel" is a shocking chronology of lives lost and an intimate portrait of a psychopathic murderer who confessed to killing some 40 hospital patients between 1988 and 2003. Night time was Cullen's time. He requested after daylight hours assignments to ICU wards in Pennsylvania and New Jersey hospitals where he used the skills he had learned not to heal but to kill. He chose his victims at random, deciding who would live and who would die. After he was apprehended Cullen insisted that he hadn't wanted people to see him as he was, as who he was, Detective Sergeant Braun asked, " Who are you, Charles?" "A man, person, who was trusted and had responsibility for a lot of people dying," was the answer. "......I had no right to do this. I had no right! I just couldn't stop! I couldn't stop it!" What could be more frightening than a man who repeatedly commits such heinous crimes, knows full well what he is doing, but cannot stop? From pictures included, Cullen is slim, a man with pleasant features. He doesn't at all appear to be the monster many claimed he was, yet his acts indicate he was less than human. What could possibly have compelled anyone to kill and kill again and again the most helpless of victims? Unfortunately, there is not an ending to this story. As late as June, 2005 Cullen's guilty pleas for five murders were accepted. And the victims families continue to plead for legislation to prevent rogue healthcare workers from moving from job to job as Cullen did. - Gail Cooke
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3.4 out of 5 stars (9 customer reviews) 6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting subject, but annoying writing style,
By Bonita - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Death Angel (Pinnacle True Crime) (Mass Market Paperback)
I found myself cringing everytime Charles Cullen's name was mentioned in this book because just about every mention of his name is prefaced by a superfluous adjective... (i.e. the killer nurse with the sickly pallor...the homicidal RN, the ghostly death shadow....and the list goes on). At times, I felt like I was reading a badly written hospital thriller. I did, however, appreciate that the victims were personalized and not referred to as a victime number. The book is a bit drawn out and tedious, but overall it's an average to decent true crime read.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
From a fellow nurse,
By S. Moreau "SueQue" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Death Angel (Pinnacle True Crime) (Mass Market Paperback)
Yep...I am a nurse. And at one time I reported a nurse I thought was doing very similar misdeeds (but they never proved it.) So heck yeah I wanted to read this book. While the subject interests me, I have a hard time getting around the writting. The authors paraphrase previous paragraphs frequently..unbelievably redundant. The time lines are all screwy - jumping around is so confusing and they often leave off years in their dates. They had one man dieing in 1996 but said he was widowed in 1997. How did THAT work? And if I heard about Charles size, pallor or stone facial expressions one more time I was going to flip. This book felt like a much shorter book that was stretched to fill pages. That makes no sense since so much happened - so many murders. There was plenty of filling available -the authors just didn't bother. I would skip this one unless you have some personal interest.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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A GRIM STORY - FRIGHTENING BECAUSE IT IS TRUE,
By Gail Cooke - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Death Angel (Pinnacle True Crime) (Mass Market Paperback)
"Nurse" as defined by Webster is one who cares for the infirm, one who attempts to cure and alleviate suffering. Forget our traditional view of a nurse when you open the pages of "Death Angel," a grim, cold-chill true story of serial killer, Charles Cullen. Penned by writer Clifford L. Linedecker and Zach T. Martin, the son of Cullen's first known victim, "Death Angel" is a shocking chronology of lives lost and an intimate portrait of a psychopathic murderer who confessed to killing some 40 hospital patients between 1988 and 2003. Night time was Cullen's time. He requested after daylight hours assignments to ICU wards in Pennsylvania and New Jersey hospitals where he used the skills he had learned not to heal but to kill. He chose his victims at random, deciding who would live and who would die. After he was apprehended Cullen insisted that he hadn't wanted people to see him as he was, as who he was, Detective Sergeant Braun asked, " Who are you, Charles?" "A man, person, who was trusted and had responsibility for a lot of people dying," was the answer. "......I had no right to do this. I had no right! I just couldn't stop! I couldn't stop it!" What could be more frightening than a man who repeatedly commits such heinous crimes, knows full well what he is doing, but cannot stop? From pictures included, Cullen is slim, a man with pleasant features. He doesn't at all appear to be the monster many claimed he was, yet his acts indicate he was less than human. What could possibly have compelled anyone to kill and kill again and again the most helpless of victims? Unfortunately, there is not an ending to this story. As late as June, 2005 Cullen's guilty pleas for five murders were accepted. And the victims families continue to plead for legislation to prevent rogue healthcare workers from moving from job to job as Cullen did. - Gail Cooke |
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