- Hardcover: 349 pages
- Publisher: Blake Publishing (31 Jan 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1903402700
- ISBN-13: 978-1903402702
- Product Dimensions: 24 x 16.4 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 316,552 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Christopher Berry-Dee is the man who talks to serial killers. A world-renowned investigative criminologist, he has gained the trust of monsters across the world, entered their prison lairs where many before him have been turned away, and discussed in detail their horrific crimes. Their remorseless pursuit of horror and violence is described in their own words in the unique audiotape and videotape interviews carried out from deep inside the bowels of some of the toughest prisons in the world. Now Christopher Berry-Dee has collated these interviews into this amazing, disturbing book. Not only does he describe the circumstances of his meeting with some of the world's most evil men, he also reproduces, verbatim, their very words as they describe their crimes and discuss their remorse - or alarming lack of it. This book is destined to become a true-crime classic, and will be required reading for anyone interested in the workings of the criminal mind...
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28 of 30 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I began reading this book with the notion in my head that it would provide me with an insight into a serial killers mind. The first section starts off brightly and does a good job at getting you interested in the way the book will eventually pan out. However, as I progressed I found that the title was more than a little misleading and that the first section by far and away was the best. The problem with the book is that all in all there is very little conversation with the men and women that the book is based on. The author states that he has had numerous correspondance with the subjects, sadly we see very little of this and only brief statements from the 'extensive' interviews carried out. By all means the book is brought together well and does display in great detail the lengths that these people have gone to in order to continue the killing. This though is pieced together by police records and not from the mouth of the convicts as I would have expected.
The author i have no doubts is extremely talented but I feel that the book let me down as much as I bought a bmw only to find the interior and engine of a cortina.
All in all the book is readable and is worth a look at, as long as you undersatnd it is merely 'a chat with serial killers' and not what you might expect.
The author i have no doubts is extremely talented but I feel that the book let me down as much as I bought a bmw only to find the interior and engine of a cortina.
All in all the book is readable and is worth a look at, as long as you undersatnd it is merely 'a chat with serial killers' and not what you might expect.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Whilst each case is a unique interesting one, there are way too many facts and nowhere near enough about the interviews. It also gets less and less interesting as the book goes on but still a good read.
22 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book should be called ' Why talk to serial killers when you know everything already?' as Mr. Barry-Dee seems to think that we are far more interested in what he has to say anyway. Though he has, apparently, had a great deal of interaction with the people he discusses you would be forgiven for doubting that as he only ever includes a few words from them at the end. It is overly sensational, describing one man as 'a monster in every sense of the word'. I don't see how this can be the case, as one sense of the word is 'a mythological creature' which seems ludicrous unless we all had a mass hallucintion that this man exists. As someone who is studying to (hopefully) become a forensic psychologist, I find books like this one abhorrent as they merely serve to enhance the idea that these people are a different breed to the rest of us, which I find rediculous and not very helpful to those who wish to understand these people better. In addition to this, having read about some of the cases before, I find some of his inferences laughable. This is a man who clearly has his own agenda (pro death penalty, in my opinion). The fact that he takes pains to prove that Henry Lee Lucas is a 'liar' because he contradicts himself seems to suggest that he has little real appreciation of insanity as he judges him on far too rational terms. If you want to learn about this subject, I would suggest 'Guilty by Reason of Insanity by D. Otnow or any of the wonderfully sensative and unsensational accounts of crime wriiten by Brian Masters. Read this is you want to get all the gory details with no genuine thought attatched.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
Intreaguing.
Very well written with a clear and concise explanation and delivery of the facts. A story that horrifies but enlightens too.
Published 3 days ago by Jules51
Not what it says on the tin.
Although sometimes there are one or two facts here and there the writer seems more interesting in telling us how he solved this and that by having such an amazing insight in to... Read more
Published 1 month ago by ChainsawKiller
Good!
I love this book and make you understand what is behind a serial killer... Why they do this and what is going on in their head !!
Published 1 month ago by Pen Name
the best serial killer book iv read
this is the best book i have ever read on serial killers, and trust me i have read alot of them, CBD really knows what we want to know, its amazing that he actually goes into the... Read more
Published 3 months ago by M!$$Y
great read
I love this product. It arrived fast, has great quality. Very much worth the money.. so all in all it was a good purchase. Regret nothing.
Published 5 months ago by janine
Hmm, more description than substrance
I really wanted to like this book. Unfortunately it is let down by its description. It is anything but talking. It is mostly the suthor talking to himself. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Talking Monkey
Interesting accounts of their life stories but not aiming at...
The book takes the format of introducing the serial killer by way of their childhood and background, which are naturally harrowing, then moving on to their crimes and adult life. Read more
Published 8 months ago by E. D. Martin
very good book
this is an excellent little book if like me you are into reading about depraved individuals
The book is quick to the point and gives you a little background on the... Read more
The book is quick to the point and gives you a little background on the... Read more
Published 10 months ago by david quinn
stop making the book out to be bad!!!
I think that the book is a great read because it also includes the serial killers story of events. This makes the book great because it shows what the killers thought was... Read more
Published on 28 Mar 2010 by Sean Hughes
A good, interesting book
This book does not have much 'talking' with serial killers in it. There are some transcripts of conversations, but what is interesting are the life stories of the killers. Read more
Published on 24 Feb 2009 by Emanon
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