The Killer Department: Detective Viktor Burakov's Eight-Year Hunt for the Most Savage Seria

by Robert Cullen

Book Overview

"Horrifying...It's a story you will not soon forget." JOHN BARKHAM REVIEWS Here is the chilling true story of the manhunt for the most frighteningly brutal serial killer of modern times--for the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679422765
• ISBN13: 9780679422761
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Pantheon Books
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

The Killer Department

This was a chilling book and a good read! The vendor shipped it promply and it was in good condition. I was extremely satisfied. Dr. John E. Touchton Sr.

terrifyingly too easy to feel it happening

The gut-wrenching angle = "Its been 2 weeks.He's due another.He may even have a live child with him right now, who's moments away from being left like this one."(mutilated+killed 53+)NON-FICTION/TRUE-CRIME.Of course there are gory visuals thru-out.But the psychological context given to the deeds, is terrifying.The police are followed (via fieldwork and paperwork)thru their horror of what they keep coming across, and their desperation of having no clue how to make use of it. Their are endless mess-ups and frame-ups leading to unforgivable injustices to innocents, and close-calls with the killer.One incident will make you violently livid toward those who let him to the streets again, inspite of the most blatantly damning behaviour imaginable.The 'confession'(at end of book)in the killer's own words, is amazing in that it gives his angle of scenes dealt with from the 'unknower's' angle thru-out the rest of the book.He himself knew that at least 30 of his kills should never have seen possibility.Some chapters are far too incidental.(some would rightfully drop it a star for that)But, most of it just makes your heart drop - at the deep suffering of an unknown man, being such that he is always losing against his froes of deep rage, so ruining children beyond recognition.(bonus in this book=u get great feel for the harsh everyday life in Russian society)

WAY Too Desciptive:

It is a very good book, but the sentinces seem to last forever, and ever with its never ending desciptions. But, Im not saying you should'nt buy it. Even though the sentinces run on, I was still interested by it; with its' amazing sense of thrill, and excitment. Buy it if you like long thrillers.