{"product_id":"unmasked","title":"UNMASKED","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003eI 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 \u003ci\u003epoint\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCrime 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut a deeper question eats at me as I ask myself, at what cost? I have sacrificed relationships, joy—even fatherhood—because the pursuit of evil always came first. Did I make the right choice? It’s something I grapple with every day. Yet as I stand in the spot where a young girl took her last breath, as I look into the eyes of her family, I know that, for me, there has never been a choice. “I don’t know if I can solve your case,” I whisper. “But I promise I will do my best.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is a promise I know I can keep.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Readers Paradise Book Shop Wexford","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49026858254683,"sku":"","price":5.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0538\/7105\/0923\/files\/15_c21e96ab-8be1-474a-9506-8e3740bf49b3.jpg?v=1726494024","url":"https:\/\/readersparadise.pro\/products\/unmasked","provider":"ReadersParadise","version":"1.0","type":"link"}