So powerful!

This book is a real horror story about serial killings, and cyber crime. John Douglas, a former FBI agent, who also worked several years as profiler for serial killers, is without doubt the best author anyone can be on this subject. The book is about the serial killer and internet criminal John Robinson. Douglas's story is well written, over documented and rings true with how criminal profiler works. However, sometimes the pace of the book gets too slow and looses the continuity and gives the feel of documentary, but then this happens with quiet a few non-fiction books.

You can't trust a book (or person) by its cover

I thought this was an excellent book and it dismays me that Robinson beat the system for years before finally being accountable for his crimes. Robinson was able to manipulate women, men and the legal system long before the internet was accessible to everyone. From fraud, embezzlement, theft, and forgery, to murder - he covered the gamut in crime and adapted himself and his crimes to what suited his needs. It amazes me that someone with no soul can tune into people and find their vulnerabilities. Unfortunately, the internet gave him access to the world to exploit.

Another good book from John Douglas

This book is the story of John E. Robinson, Sr. who, while pretending to be a prominent and successful Kansas City business man and loving husband, father, and grandfather, progressed from con man, embezzler, and swindler, to sadistic serial killer of needy women; Robinson is presented as the first such killer to use the Internet to find his victims. John Douglas is not a brilliant writer, and the book could benefit from a bit more editing to take out redundant passages and grammatical errors. But Douglas (and/or his co-author Stephen Singular) is able to put a sentence together correctly, for the most part, and I read this book from cover to cover, not wanting to put it down before I finished it, which is more than I can say for most of the books I attempt to read these days.