Killer On The Road

Author : James Ellroy
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 038080896X
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Killer on the Road written by James Ellroy and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1999-06-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Michael Plunkett is a product of his times -- the possessor of a genius intellect, a pitiless soul of brushed steel, and a heart of blackest evil. With criminal tendencies forged in the fires of L.A.'s Charles Manson hysteria, he comes to the bay city of San Francisco -- and submits to savage and terrible impulses that reveal to him his true vocation as a pure and perfect murderer. And so begins his decade of discovery and terror, as he cuts a bloody swath across the full length of a land, ingeniously exploiting and feeding upon a society's obsessions. As he maneuvers deftly through a seamy world of drugs, flesh, and perversions, the media will call him many things -- but Martin Plunkett's real name is Death. His brilliant, twisted mind is a horriying place to explore. His madness reflects a nation's own. The killer is on the road. And there's nowhere in America to hide.

Author : Ginger Strand
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292726376
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Killer on the Road written by Ginger Strand and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-04-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the correlation between the construction of the Interstate Highway system and the rise in the national murder rate, highlighting specific killers and how the highway system changed America.

Author : Ginger Strand
Publisher : Univ of TX + ORM
ISBN 13 : 029274210X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Killer on the Road written by Ginger Strand and published by Univ of TX + ORM. This book was released on 2012-04-04 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True crime meets cultural history in this story of how America’s interstate highway system opened a world of mobility and opportunity . . . for serial killers. Starting in the 1950s, Americans eagerly built the planet’s largest public work: the 42,795-mile National System of Interstate and Defense Highways. Before the concrete was dry on the new roads, however, a specter began haunting them: the highway killer. He went by many names: the “Hitcher,” the “Freeway Killer,” the “Killer on the Road,” the “I-5 Strangler,” and the “Beltway Sniper.” Some of these criminals were imagined, but many were real. The nation’s murder rate shot up as its expressways were built. America became more violent and more mobile at the same time. Killer on the Road tells the entwined stories of America’s highways and its highway killers. There’s the hot-rodding juvenile delinquent who led the National Guard on a multistate manhunt; the wannabe highway patrolman who murdered hitchhiking coeds; the record promoter who preyed on “ghetto kids” in a city reshaped by freeways; the nondescript married man who stalked the interstates seeking women with car trouble; and the trucker who delivered death with his cargo. Thudding away behind these grisly crime sprees is the story of the interstates—how they were sold, how they were built, how they reshaped the nation—and how we came to equate them with violence. Through the stories of highway killers, we see how the “killer on the road,” like the train robber, the gangster, and the mobster, entered the cast of American outlaws, and how the freeway—conceived as a road to utopia—came to be feared as a highway to hell. “Strand . . . Explores the connection between America’s sprawling highway system and the pathology of the murderers who have made them a killing ground. . . . The grim stories of murder on the highway may do for road trips what Jaws did for surfing. An interesting detour into a true-crime niche.” ―Kirkus Reviews “Strand’s cross-threaded tales of drifters, stranded motorists, and madmen got its hooks into me. Reading Ms. Strand’s thoughtful book is like driving a Nash Rambler after midnight on a highway to hell.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times “A titillating, clever volume that mixes the sweeping sociological assertions of an urban-studies textbook with the chilling gore of true-crime stories.” —Bookforum “Ginger Strand is in possession of a sharp eye, a biting wit, a beguiling sense of fun—and a magnificent obsession.” —Bloomberg

Author : Nathan Nixon
Publisher : Trellis Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Serial Killer's Road Trip written by Nathan Nixon and published by Trellis Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1950's for the United States of America is best remembered as some of the most trying times in the history of the nation. While the early 1950's saw the baby boom, the late half of the decade was marred by civil instability and mistrust. Many Americans, especially those in the southern United States, lost their trust in the American dream as well as the government. Many of those Americans took their destiny into their own hands. Charles Starkweather may have been the epitome of the decline of human morals in the late 1950's. In one of the most notable murder sprees in the modern era, Hollywood has recreated the life of Charles Starkweather many times over. Charles Starkweather is best known for a murder spree that spanned over the course of just a few months. The circumstances surrounding this reign of terror make it unique to the crime community

Author : Peter Vronsky
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593198816
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Serial Killers written by Peter Vronsky and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of Mindhunter and true crime podcasts will devour these chilling stories of serial killers from the American "Golden Age" (1950-2000). With books like Serial Killers, Female Serial Killers and Sons of Cain, Peter Vronsky has established himself as the foremost expert on the history of serial killers. In this first definitive history of the "Golden Age" of American serial murder, when the number and body count of serial killers exploded, Vronsky tells the stories of the most unusual and prominent serial killings from the 1950s to the early twenty-first century. From Ted Bundy to the Golden State Killer, our fascination with these classic serial killers seems to grow by the day. American Serial Killers gives true crime junkies what they crave, with both perennial favorites (Ed Kemper, Jeffrey Dahmer) and lesser-known cases (Melvin Rees, Harvey Glatman).

Author : RickthePoetWarrior
Publisher : eBookIt.com
ISBN 13 : 1987896726
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Some Terrorible Company To Keep written by RickthePoetWarrior and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business and ethics have long been uneasy bedfellows. Nothing has changed. It is still being used as a tool by rich elitists to enforce their standards and class structures onto the rest of us. Un-elected, deceitful, and with the consumers demise as it's goal (less for you, more for them). TheRich always co-opt our institutions and organizations, turning them into facades to enforce social and political norms crafted to their needs, regardless of the harm to the environment or the people that inhabit it. This leads to such inhumane and irresponsible absurdities such as letting Elon Musk wastefully throw a Rolls Royce into outer space while he pays lower class workers starvation wages.

Author : Patrizia Torsini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788899993429
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Killer on the road written by Patrizia Torsini and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Steven Powell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137490837
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book James Ellroy written by Steven Powell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Ellroy: Demon Dog of Crime Fiction is a study of all of Ellroy's key works, from his debut novel Brown's Requiem to the epic Underworld USA trilogy. This book traces the development of Ellroy's writing style and the importance of his Demon Dog persona to carving out his unique place in American crime fiction.

Author : Rosemary Kerr
Publisher : Channel View Publications
ISBN 13 : 1845416708
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roads, Tourism and Cultural History written by Rosemary Kerr and published by Channel View Publications. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roads and road tourism loom large in the Australian imagination as distance and mobility have shaped the nation’s history and culture, but roads are more than simply transport routes; they embody multiple layers of history, mythology and symbolism. Drawing on Australian travel writing, diaries and manuscripts, tourism literature, fiction, poetry and feature films, this book explores how Australians have experienced and imagined roads and road touring beyond urban settings: from Aboriginal ‘songlines’ to modern-day road trips. It also tells the stories of iconic roads, including the Birdsville Track, Stuart Highway and Great Ocean Road, and suggests alternative approaches to heritage and tourism interpretation of these important routes. The ongoing impact of the colonial past on Indigenous peoples and contemporary Australian society and culture – including representations of the road and road travel – is explored throughout the book. The volume offers a new way of thinking about roads and road tourism as important strands in a nation’s cultural fabric.

Author : Wensley Clarkson
Publisher : Blake Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781857824902
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Killer on the Road written by Wensley Clarkson and published by Blake Pub. This book was released on 2000 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenneth Noye, the man at the top of organized crime in Britain fled the country after the murder of young motorist Stephen Cameron on the M25. His extradition from spain caused banner headlines across the country. Presenting material on Noye's criminal dealings, Journalist Wensley Clarkson has penetrated the inner sanctum of Noye's closest family and criminal associates to paint a chilling portrait of a master criminal.