{"product_id":"holes-paul-unmasked-9781250622808","title":"Unmasked","description":"**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** \"It's a mark of the highest honor when I say it's even more riveting than an episode of 'Dateline'.\" -The New York Times From Paul Holes, the detective who found the Golden State Killer, Unmasked is a memoir that \"grabs its reader in a stranglehold and proves more fascinating than fiction and darker than any noir narrative.\" (LA Magazine) I 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 point. 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. Crime 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. When 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. But 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.\" It is a promise I know I can keep.","brand":"Celadon Books","offers":[{"title":"Used - good","offer_id":53217612169558,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Used - very good","offer_id":53951450775894,"sku":"9781250622808-V","price":13.89,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9781250622808_1.jpg?v=1779877985","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/holes-paul-unmasked-9781250622808","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}