{"product_id":"unmasked-6","title":"Unmasked By Paul Holes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**THE INSTANT \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"It?s a mark of the highest honor when I say it?s even more riveting than an episode of ''Dateline''.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e?The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Paul Holes, the detective who found the Golden State Killer, \u003ci\u003eUnmasked \u003c\/i\u003eis a memoir that \"grabs its reader in a stranglehold and proves more fascinating than fiction and darker than any noir narrative.\" (\u003ci\u003eLA Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57820912157054,"sku":"NW9781250622808","price":13.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781250622808.jpg?v=1786180097","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/unmasked-6","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}