Michael Capuzzo – лучшие книги

Combining rich historical detail and a harrowing, pulse-pounding narrative, Close to Shore brilliantly re-creates the summer of 1916, when a rogue Great White shark attacked swimmers along the New Jersey shore, triggering mass hysteria and launching the most extensive shark hunt in history.

During the summer before the United States entered World War I, when ocean swimming was just becoming popular and luxurious Jersey Shore resorts were thriving as a chic playland for an opulent yet still innocent era's new leisure class, Americans were abruptly introduced to the terror of sharks. In July 1916 a lone Great White left its usual deep-ocean habitat and headed in the direction of the New Jersey shoreline. There, near the towns of Beach Haven and Spring Lake-and, incredibly, a farming community eleven miles inland-the most ferocious and unpredictable of predators began a deadly rampage: the first shark attacks on swimmers in U.S. history.

For Americans celebrating an astoundingly prosperous epoch much like our own, fueled by the wizardry of revolutionary inventions, the arrival of this violent predator symbolized the limits of mankind's power against nature.

Interweaving a vivid portrait of the era and meticulously drawn characters with chilling accounts of the shark's five attacks and the frenzied hunt that ensued, Michael Capuzzo has created a nonfiction historical thriller with the texture of Ragtime and the tension of Jaws. From the unnerving inevitability of the first attack on the esteemed son of a prosperous Philadelphia physician to the spine-tingling moment when a farm boy swimming in Matawan Creek feels the sandpaper-like skin of the passing shark, Close to Shore is an undeniably gripping saga.

Heightening the drama are stories of the resulting panic in the citizenry, press and politicians, and of colorful personalities such as Herman Oelrichs, a flamboyant millionaire who made a bet that a shark was no match for a man (and set out to prove it); Museum of Natural History ichthyologist John Treadwell Nichols, faced with the challenge of stopping a mythic sea creature about which little was known; and, most memorable, the rogue Great White itself moving through a world that couldn't conceive of either its destructive power or its moral right to destroy.

Scrupulously researched and superbly written, Close to Shore brings to life a breathtaking, pivotal moment in American history. Masterfully written and suffused with fascinating period detail and insights into the science and behavior of sharks, Close to Shore recounts a breathtaking, pivotal moment in American history with startling immediacy.

Three of the world?s greatest detectives ? a renowned former FBI agent, a forensic sculptor and an eccentric profiler known as ?the living Sherlock Holmes? ? were distraught at the growing tide of unsolved murders. And so William Fleisher, Frank Bender and Richard Walter pledged themselves to a quest for justice . . .

They invited the finest collection of forensic minds ever assembled, drawn from five continents, to bring the coldest killers in the world to account. Named after the first detective ? Eugene Francois Vidocq ? the Vidocq Society meets monthly to solve a cold case.

The Murder Room paints a chilling picture as the three partners travel far and wide to hunt ? among countless others ? the ruthless killers of a millionaire?s son, a serial killer who carves off faces, and a child killer enjoying fifty years of freedom and dark fantasy.

Bestselling author Michael Capuzzo brings to life a world of dazzling forensic science, evil as old as the Bible and at its centre a group of passionate detectives ? inspired by their own wounded hearts to make a stand for truth, goodness and justice in a world gone mad.

"Klub Koneserów Zbrodni" to oparta na faktach opowieść o trójce założycieli Towarzystwa Vidocqa w Filadelfii, któremu patronuje słynny francuski detektyw z czasów napoleońskich. To elitarne stowarzyszenie, istniejące naprawdę, od początku lat dziewięćdziesiątych zrzesza najlepszych kryminologów, detektywów, patologów i specjalistów medycyny sądowej. Działa pro bono, rozwiązując zagadki nie wyjaśnionych tradycyjnymi metodami morderstw. Członkowie klubu spotykają się w każdy trzeci czwartek miesiąca przy wykwintnym obiedzie, po którym dyskutują o przypadkach.

Capuzzo śledzi rozwój stowarzyszenia od momentu jego założenia do dnia dzisiejszego. Koncentruje się głównie na karierach trójki założycieli: Frank Bender z niesamowitą intuicją odtwarza twarze niezidentyfikowanych sprawców. Ralph Walter, bazując na wiedzy psychologicznej, opracowuje portrety psychologiczne sprawców i analizuje psychikę morderców. Z kolei William Fleisher to obdarzony melancholijnym poczuciem humoru agent FBI i służb celnych. Trio łączy przyjaźń i niezwykła komitywa, a także cięte poczucie humoru!

W kolejnych rozdziałach jak w kalejdoskopie oglądamy najciekawsze przypadki, którymi się zajmowali na przestrzeni lat i śledzimy proces dochodzenia do prawdy. Każdy przypadek opisany jest tak sugestywnie, że wielu czytelników po lekturze nie będzie mogło sie otrząsnąć!