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The Real Cracker (Hardcover)

by Stephen Cook (Author)
2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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  • Hardcover: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Channel 4 Books (9 Mar 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0752272608
  • ISBN-13: 978-0752272603
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 997,891 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Using unprecedented access to sensitive police work, "The Real Cracker" follows Britain's two top offender profilers, Julian Boon and Richard Badcock as they help police work on five grim and perplexing cases. These include the prolific serial criminal who has raped or assaulted more than twenty elderly women and the man who preys on courting couples at a Hampshire beauty spot. There is the shocking rape and murder of a young woman in her south London flat, the sinister blackmailing of airline stewardesses in Sussex, and the mysterious killing of an eighty-seven-year-old spinster in a seaside town. As well as exposing the modern realities of profiling, "The Real Cracker" looks at its history and tackles some of the big questions about this fledgling and controversial science: does it really help to solve crimes? Is it much better than palmistry?

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1.0 out of 5 stars Don't build your hopes up!, 13 Mar 2001
By Mrs. Lindsey Rodgers (Christchurch, Dorset) - See all my reviews
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Having been unable to put down either "The Jigsaw Man" or "Picking up the pieces" by Paul Britton, I was filled with anticipation when I heard that "The Real Cracker" was due to be released. I was certainly in for a great disappointment and would warn other criminal psychology addicts not to build their hopes up.

The writing is disjointed and fails to paint pictures for the reader, to such an extent that I found my mind wandering onto other things. The over riding feeling that I had when "struggling" through the text, was that the whole purpose of the book was to discredit Paul Britton and to distance the police from what were perhaps past errors of judgement.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Gets under the skin of modern crime detection, 14 April 2001
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Stephen Cook's book is different from the average 'real crime' volume. It doesn't wallow in sensational detail, although the crimes it deals with are sensational enough. Instead it gets beneath the surface of each investigation it describes and provides detailed insight into the nuts and bolts of modern police investigations - the hard slog, the disputes, the blind alleys, the occasional golden moments when the right bit of evidence turns up or the DNA profile scores a hit. It's a book which makes you feel that real life can be just as exciting as fiction: each case is described in the manner of a whodunnit, capturing some of the suspense and the emotions of the participants as events twist and turn towards a conclusion.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Not very good, 6 April 2006
By N. James (St.Albans, Herts. United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The real Cracker, investigating the criminal mind (Paperback)
Like a previous reviewer, having enjoyed both of Paul Britton's books, I thought this would be of a similar calibre. It is badly written and fails to satisfy on all levels. The 2 profilers come across as haphazard dandys with no real clinical experience, in direct contrast to Paul Britton. Don't bother.
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