Book summary of Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases by Paul Holes
I order another bourbon, neat. This is the drink that will flip the switch. I don’t even know how I got here, to this place, to this point. Something is happening to me lately. I’m drinking too much. My sheets are soaking wet when I wake up from nightmares of decaying corpses. I order another drink and swig it, trying to forget about the latest case I can’t shake. Crime solving for me is more complex than the challenge of the hunt, or the process of piecing together a scientific puzzle. The thought of good people suffering drives me, for better or worse, to the point of obsession. People always ask how I am able to detach from the horrors of my work. Part of it is an innate capacity to compartmentalize; the rest is experience and exposure, and I’ve had plenty of both. But I have always taken pride in the fact that I can keep my feelings locked up to get the job done. It’s only been recently that it feels like all that suppressed darkness is beginning to seep out. When I look back at my long career, there is a lot I am proud of. I have caught some of the most notorious killers of the twenty-first century and brought justice and closure for their victims and families. I want to tell you about a lifetime solving these cold cases, from Laci Peterson to Jaycee Dugard to the Pittsburg homicides to, yes, my twenty-year-long hunt for the Golden State Killer.
Details of e-book Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases
- Author(s): Paul Holes
- Title: Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases
- Rating: 4.5 out of 5 base on 1285 reviews
- Publisher: Celadon Books (April 26, 2022)
- ISBN-10: B092T93LTD
- ISBN-13: 978B092T93LT5
- Language: English
- Print length: 279 pages
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
