No Mercy: The Host of "America's Most Wanted" Hunts the Worst Criminals of Our Time in Shattering True Crime Cases

by JohnWalsh (Author), PhilipLerman (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1998

  $7.68

  John Walsh, the host of America's Most Wanted, disclosed the wrenching story of the abduction and murder of his six-year-old son, Adam, in his bestselling memoir Tears of Rage . Now, fueled by his relentless hunger for justice, Walsh brings forth the untold stories behind the greatest cases Americas Most Wanted has ever solved. In riveting detail, and with a crime victim's compassion, John Walsh reveals the terrifying and unforgettable true tales inside the most chilling crimes-- and thrilling chases-- of our time. For the first time ever, John Walsh takes you behind the scenes of the groundbreaking show that has formed a unique partnership between the media, the public, and law enforcement-- a partnership responsible for stunning victories in the war against crime. In ten years, the show's viewers have helped put more than 500 fugitives behind bars-- including twelve who were on the FBI's Most Wanted list. They've been involved in the capture of criminals hiding in thirty countries and, most important to John Walsh, brought twenty-three missing children back home safely. In a true-crime book like no other, John takes you: Inside the criminal mind... Follow every step the fugitives took-- how they hid, how they survived-- and how they'd do anything to stay on the run. Inside the police investigations... Learn every secret twist and turn, uncover every clue, in the race-against-time manhunts for the fugitives. Inside the remarkable television show itself... On an all-access tour, discover how the cases are selected and reenacted, and how America's Most Wanted has survived for an incredible ten years. You'll be there when the switchboard lights up with viewer calls-- and learn how hotline operators make split-second decisions with enormous consequences for crime victims and criminals. And you'll be there for the thrilling takedowns, as law enforcement races to make an arrest. In No Mercy , John includes the cases that he calls the ones that mattered the most : EDDIE JAMES: One of the cases that outraged John Walsh most, and one he took personally. If he couldn't catch his own son's killer, he was determined this brutal child-killer wouldn't get away. ANDREW CUNANAN: The true story of how America's Most Wanted spotted him as a dangerous spree killer-- and nearly caught him-- before he killed Gianni Versace. John Walsh was the only journalist allowed inside the investigation; now, for the first time, he tells what really happened. POLLY KLAAS: In, a case so tragically like his own, John relives his own family's nightmare in a heartpounding race to find a missing child. You'll listen in on the tearful but inspiring meeting between John Walsh and Mark Klaas, the fathers of two children murdered in cold blood and mourned by a nation. John Walsh has struck a chord with Americans who are mad as hell and ready to fight back. It is for us-- and for all of our children-- that he has become an unstoppable force for justice; now, in No Mercy , you can join the fight.