Profiles the life and crimes of James Mitchell De Bardeleban, from his initial arrest as a counterfeiter to the discovery that he was also a sadistic kidnapper, torturer, and sex murderer responsible for a twenty-year reign of terror.
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35 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting story but blandly written,
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This review is from: Lethal Shadow: The Chilling True-Crime Story of a Sadistic Sex Slayer (Mass Market Paperback)
Story of a counterfeiting, spousal abuse, kidnapping, rape and murder. The author focuses mainly on the counterfeiting aspect and the U.S. Secret Service agents who pursued Mike DeBardeleben. You never get the feeling of really knowing the subject as you do with Jack Olsen, Ann Rule, et al. This is a problem with half the true crime books out there; probably because they are written from court transcripts and do not scratch the surface of a great story.
33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
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Don't waste your time...,
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This review is from: Lethal Shadow: The Chilling True-Crime Story of a Sadistic Sex Slayer (Mass Market Paperback)
I am an avid true crime reader and this book wasn't worth the typing effort to order. The author focused on every pointless event of the case and crime. I honestly couldn't finish it. I made it 2/3 the way through and tossed it on the bookshelf...and believe me, it has to be bad for me not to finish it! Its to bad too, because the REAL story that he was attempting to tell was an outrageous crime that was commited and worthy story to be written about, he just couldn't get it across.
18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Average reading... not a bad book, but not the best, either,
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This review is from: Lethal Shadow: The Chilling True-Crime Story of a Sadistic Sex Slayer (Mass Market Paperback)
I found this book to be mildly interesting, but certainly not the best book I've read. I found it to be a bit dry at times, with too much focus on the police, FBI & Secret Service personnel and too little on the criminal and his crimes.
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