The MANHUNTER [Paperback]

John Pascucci (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 1997

For eleven years, John Pascucci tracked down the most evil people on earth. He was better at it than anyone else in the U.S. government - in part because he made himself think like the people he was tracking. During the Reagan administration's "get tough" era of law enforcement, he became one of the most decorated men in the Marshals. President Reagan wanted results - period. And Pascucci delivered. John Pascucci was the best American Nazi hunter who ever lived. After others had failed, he nailed "The Child Killer" of the Ukraine, Bohdan Koziy, who'd earned his nickname by torturing and killing children in front of their parents. Then Pascucci bagged the "uncatchable" Konrad Kalejs, who'd murdered thirteen thousand Jews. Finally, Pascucci tracked down the inhuman Dr. Josef Mengele - and settled the fate of the "Angel of Death." Pascucci applied a streamlined strategy to evil men: "Track 'em, whack 'em, sack 'em." Since he was after dangerous fugitives who'd already been convicted, Pascucci didn't need to worry about suspects' rights or rules of evidence. He just needed to bring back his man, dead or alive. Pascucci, America's cyber-detective, worked with just two weapons: one good modem-equipped computer, and one good gun. They were all it took for him to catch virtually anyone.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

"I was a fugitive investigator, a manhunter. I was chief of International Operations for the United States Marshals Service. My job was to track down the most evil people on earth: terrorists, killers, spies, Nazis, neo-Nazis, and psychopaths. I was better at [it] than anyone else in the federal government--in part because I made myself think like the people I was tracking. That was part of the price I paid.... And now I want some payback. Even if that payback is just your attention. So let me tell my story."

John Pascucci is a man's man: large, muscular, trash-talkin', full of attitude, and always primed for action. He drives a souped-up fire-apple red 1960 Corvette convertible, guzzles his caffeine from an endless series of Cokes, and displays a child's sense of humor in both sick pranks and harmless stunts (once he uses "Porgy Tirebiter," a name from a Firesign Theater skit, as an alias). He's a lover of extremes. He condemns himself almost much as he brags about himself. He's impressive, annoying, endearing, not very admirable (despite all his righteousness), and a heck of a lot of fun to listen to.

John Pascucci's book, The Manhunter, is just like him. Take them both with a grain of salt. --Fiona Webster

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Pocket Star (July 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671885170
• ISBN-13: 978-0671885175
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,526,647 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Great Book By A Crook, November 17, 1999

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DevilDog28 (Long Island, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The MANHUNTER (Paperback)

Mr. Pascucci makes you believe he is this unstoppable, law breaking, law enforcement officer. While I was down at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center at Glynco, Ga, I got to meet a couple of Senior Deputy U.S. Marshals who knew Mr. Pascussi. They basically told me that he was a slime ball and lied about alot of the book. If you want to read an interesting book read this one, but don't believe everything you read. Mr. Pascussi was arrested by the F.B.I for bribing elected officials and was embarrassed in front of a large gathering with Safir's(NYC Police Commissioner) approval. But, you have to do what you have to do, and Mr. Pascussi did. The U.S. Marshals Service will stab you in the back, so it is right for Mr. Pascussi to take a few stabs at them. Thanks to Chief Larry Parker(Eastern District of NY),Inspector Thomas Spillane(OIA),and Assistant Director Wayne"Duke" Smith.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Read about it or go do it yourself., November 19, 2004

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Mami Tomioka "Boone" (Near Tokyo) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The MANHUNTER (Paperback)

Personally I'd rather read about this sort of thing than do it. Pretty provocative stuff. If someone is going to publish a biography, they'd better have a life worth reading about. Pascucci fills that bill several times over. The book let me ride along on an intense and enthralling career, giving me second-hand experience and lingo to throw around, and fuel for imagination. There are some downsides. The writing is distractingly mediocre. Pascucci has an ego so obese that it leaves little room for the reader, but a good deal of room for skepticism. Sometimes I wanted to yell at the book, "okay, you're God's gift to truth, justice and the American way. Shut up, already." but I kept reading, anyway, to the credit of the book. But the ego is part of the package. After a little surfing, I didn't find any evidence to argue that he really was the greatest modern manhunter. The only substantial criticism I'd level against the book was that it spent too much time on numbers, names, statistics, and bureaucratic run-downs and showed almost nothing of his supposed genius for "getting inside the heads" of the men he hunted, how he went about it, or the details of how it adversely affected him. That was why I'd gotten the book in the first place. But I still don't feel it was a wasted read (and my reading time is about as thin as it could be). If you watch cop shows or crime movies, I'd recommend it. But as I said in the title, if you work in a law enforcement capacity, avoid it. It will only annoy you. Cops are as bad as women, if you know what I mean.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Hmmm, June 24, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: The MANHUNTER (Paperback)

I liked this book, but am seeing from other reviews that a lot of it is made up. I have to say, I was wondering if some of it was made up when I read it. That he alone got Christopher Boyce to confess to robbing banks seemed a little too easy. Maybe he did. But, actually, I didn't even KNOW Christopher Boyce (the Falcon "spy" in the movie FALCON AND THE SNOWMAN) had escaped prison and robbed banks, so was interested in that section of the book for that. But I thought Pascucci was spot on when he states that Boyce didn't sell secrets to the Soviets for idealogical reasons, as he claimed, but because Boyce is a purely immoral sociopath. The one problem I really had with the book is Pascucci states so blithely how he would sign his own search warrants, without ever getting a judge's approval, so he was making all these illegal searches, but figures the ends justifies the means. Uh, the laws were written for a reason. That he so cavalierly forged search warrants--and he does it throughout the book--appalled me.