They called Tulsa detective Chuck Sasser "Columbo" for his uncanny ability to solve murders. In Homicide!, Sasser brings us into his raw, grim world: the psychopaths and lowlifes who haunt our streets, the gruesome details of dead bodies, the killers who are out on parole and free to kill again, and the terrible, mind-bending toll homicide investigators take on a cop and his family. One case possessed Chuck Sasser as no other would. For nine years, he searched for the vicious serial killer who had assaulted and murdered three young women. He had few clues, leads or suspects - but the similar patterns of death and mutilation and the sheer savagery of the crimes drove him relentlessly on. Through a tough detective's eyes, this book brings to life the ugly realities, black humor and battle-scarred idealism of a veteran cop's world. This is life on the front lines, the real battle against the lawless insanity that is threatening our cities and towns across the USA.
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Sasser's milieu of homicidal perverts, rotting corpses and misunderstood cops handcuffed by a bleeding-heart liberal establishment is nothing new to fans of hard-boiled detective fiction. This volume , however, is no novel but an account of the author's years as a Tulsa, Okla., homicide detective, loosely structured around his obsession with solving the grisly serial murders of three young women, dubbed the "Jekyll-and-Hyde" case by the local newspaper. Although these particular murders are never solved, Sasser--who casts himself as a combination Columbo (his nickname) and Dirty Harry (the phrase "make my day" appears more than once)--seems to have enjoyed more successes than failures, and he recounts the former in a lively, literate style. He also displays an exaggerated machismo and a manifest contempt for women and homosexuals. Nevertheless, Sasser (coauthor of The Walking Dead: A Marine's Story of Vietnam ) offers a grim, authentic window to a world of horrors only hinted at in the tabloid headlines, and gives us a personal look at the triumphs and frustrations of those we pay to face those horrors every working day.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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