Friday, October 03, 2003
AUTHOR Ablow, Keith R.
TITLE Psychopath / Keith Ablow.
EDITION 1st ed.
IMPRINT New York : St. Martin's Press, 2003.
DESCRIPT 323 p. ; 25 cm.
SUBJECT Forensic psychiatrists -- Fiction.
Serial murders -- Fiction.
Psychiatrists -- Fiction.
Psychopaths -- Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Mystery fiction.
ISBN 0312266715.
"With victims strewn across twelve states, there seems to be no end to the terror of the serial killer known only as the
"Highway Killer." Chosen seemingly at random, his victims are young and old, male and female, from all walks of life. The FBI
has no leads. And bodies keep turning up coast to coast." "What the authorities can't know is that the killer is also a gifted
healer, a psychiatrist who lures his victims into a false sense of security with his miraculous ability to spark instant intimacy and
to understand their darkest emotional secrets. He is their confessor, but he is also their executioner." "Brilliant forensic
psychiatrist Frank Clevenger thought he could trade the public spotlight for a quiet life with his newly adopted son. But now
Clevenger is recruited by the FBI to help catch the Highway Killer. Forced back into the glare of the national media, Clevenger
must descend into the twisted mind of a relentless killer while trying to keep his own rebellious adopted son from staring into a
life of drugs and violence." "The case takes a bizarre twist when the Highway Killer writes to The New York Times,
challenging Clevenger to heal him through an exchange of open letters published on the front page. Clevenger accepts. But as
the Highway Killer confronts the demons that inhabit his own tortured mind, his brutality climbs to new heights." "No one can
know whether Clevenger will ultimately exorcise those demons or if the Highway Killer's diabolical mind will explode in an
ever-more gruesome frenzy of violence."--BOOK JACKET.
TITLE Psychopath / Keith Ablow.
EDITION 1st ed.
IMPRINT New York : St. Martin's Press, 2003.
DESCRIPT 323 p. ; 25 cm.
SUBJECT Forensic psychiatrists -- Fiction.
Serial murders -- Fiction.
Psychiatrists -- Fiction.
Psychopaths -- Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Mystery fiction.
ISBN 0312266715.
"With victims strewn across twelve states, there seems to be no end to the terror of the serial killer known only as the
"Highway Killer." Chosen seemingly at random, his victims are young and old, male and female, from all walks of life. The FBI
has no leads. And bodies keep turning up coast to coast." "What the authorities can't know is that the killer is also a gifted
healer, a psychiatrist who lures his victims into a false sense of security with his miraculous ability to spark instant intimacy and
to understand their darkest emotional secrets. He is their confessor, but he is also their executioner." "Brilliant forensic
psychiatrist Frank Clevenger thought he could trade the public spotlight for a quiet life with his newly adopted son. But now
Clevenger is recruited by the FBI to help catch the Highway Killer. Forced back into the glare of the national media, Clevenger
must descend into the twisted mind of a relentless killer while trying to keep his own rebellious adopted son from staring into a
life of drugs and violence." "The case takes a bizarre twist when the Highway Killer writes to The New York Times,
challenging Clevenger to heal him through an exchange of open letters published on the front page. Clevenger accepts. But as
the Highway Killer confronts the demons that inhabit his own tortured mind, his brutality climbs to new heights." "No one can
know whether Clevenger will ultimately exorcise those demons or if the Highway Killer's diabolical mind will explode in an
ever-more gruesome frenzy of violence."--BOOK JACKET.
AUTHOR Roach, Mary.
TITLE Stiff : the curious lives of human cadavers / Mary Roach.
EDITION 1st ed.
IMPRINT New York : W.W. Norton, c2003.
DESCRIPT 303 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
BIBLIOG. Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-303)
CONTENTS A head is a terrible thing to waste: practicing surgery on the
dead -- Crimes of anatomy: body snatching and other sordid tales from the dawn of human dissection -- Life after death: on
human decay and what can be done about it -- Dead man driving:
human crash test dummies and the ghastly, necessary science of
impact tolerance -- Beyond the black box: when the bodies of
the passengers must tell the story of a crash -- The cadaver
that joined the army: the sticky ethics of bullets and bombs --Holy cadaver: the crucifixion experiments -- How to know if
you're dead: Beating-heart cadavers, live burial, and the
scientific search for the soul -- Just a head: decapitation,
reanimation, and the human head transplant -- Eat me: medicinal
cannibalism and the case of the human dumplings -- Out of the
fire, into the compost bin: and other new ways to end up --
Remains of the author: will she or won't she?
SUBJECT Human experimentation in medicine.
SUBJECT Human experimentation in medicine.
Dead.
Human dissection.
ADD TITLE Curious lives of human cadavers.
ISBN 0393050939.
TITLE Stiff : the curious lives of human cadavers / Mary Roach.
EDITION 1st ed.
IMPRINT New York : W.W. Norton, c2003.
DESCRIPT 303 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
BIBLIOG. Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-303)
CONTENTS A head is a terrible thing to waste: practicing surgery on the
dead -- Crimes of anatomy: body snatching and other sordid tales from the dawn of human dissection -- Life after death: on
human decay and what can be done about it -- Dead man driving:
human crash test dummies and the ghastly, necessary science of
impact tolerance -- Beyond the black box: when the bodies of
the passengers must tell the story of a crash -- The cadaver
that joined the army: the sticky ethics of bullets and bombs --Holy cadaver: the crucifixion experiments -- How to know if
you're dead: Beating-heart cadavers, live burial, and the
scientific search for the soul -- Just a head: decapitation,
reanimation, and the human head transplant -- Eat me: medicinal
cannibalism and the case of the human dumplings -- Out of the
fire, into the compost bin: and other new ways to end up --
Remains of the author: will she or won't she?
SUBJECT Human experimentation in medicine.
SUBJECT Human experimentation in medicine.
Dead.
Human dissection.
ADD TITLE Curious lives of human cadavers.
ISBN 0393050939.
