St. Martin's True Crime Library Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI, (Paperback)

from BellaFoxx

This is another of those books that has been on my to-read list for a long time. As noted above, Robert Ressler has been tracking serial killers with the FBI for 20 years and his experience shows. He is rather humble and admits that 'Profilers don't catch killers. Cops catch killers.' Profiling i...

from ague

7/10. Did not finish reading it. Got too dense and boring. Needed better writing and editing. But, it is by Robert K. Ressler, the original FBI profiler. And also written with Tom Schachtman.

from Borg-mx5

True accounts from a genuine criminal profiler. How he works and what clues he finds significant in solving a crime. An interesting read.

from nicdevera

Interesting as a source document. Thomas Harris started the serial killer boom with Silence of the Lambs, that snowballed into CSI, Profiler, Criminal Minds, etc. So Robert Ressler's Whoever Fights Monsters and John Douglas's Mindhunter can be considered the core nonfiction texts. At best, profil...

from KWoman

A book that goes inside the serial killers' way of thinking. However, I believe that this book had the potential to be a slam dunk, but it just wasn't. The author glossed over many details that may have been interesting to the reader. Still, the interviews with the killers was somewhat interestin...