Tears of Rage: From Grieving Father to Crusader for Justce: The Untold Story of the Adam Walsh Case

by John Walsh and John Walsh

Book Overview

For the first time, John Walsh, host of America's Most Wanted, tells the full story of the 1981 abduction and murder of his six-year-old son, Adam, in this heartbreaking chronicle of Walsh's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671006614
• ISBN13: 9780671006617
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Tears of rage

Very good book and I hope it works out for them about all the info.

Not complete

The first 22 pages are missing. I can't start in the middle of a chapter and the middle of a sentence. Very disappointed considering it was supposed to be like new condition.

Amazing!

This book truly amazed me. I read it because I was bored over the Summer (I'm 13), and I picked it up because I saw a kid on hte cover. "the kid" turned out to be six-year-old Adam Walsh, a murdered child in 1981. Mr. Walsh amazed me with his style of writing, it captured me in and I felt as if it was 1981 and I was re-living the Walsh case even though I wasn't alive to actually live it in the first place.It's nice to know someone used his grief for good, instead of taking it out on the rest of his family or someone else, or killing himself. John Walsh fought for other children's rights as his son's case remained unsolved, when most people would dwell on the case related to him.It's also scary to know that that beautiful boy would be murdered...What about me and my loud, middle-school friends? If someone could snatch a sweet littel boy what would they do with kids wild? I've read this book three times, and each time I get more emotional at the emotions John portrays as he begins to realize what has happened to him and Rieve', and especially to Adam.

This book is a really good read!

John and Reve Walsh have to have the most guts of anyone I have ever seen. To have this happen to them, and have the courage to start a show to catch these people is absoutly amazing. John Walsh's book, Tears of Rage, tells a story that is very sad and heart grabbing. If you want to read a book that will tug at your heart strings,this is the one you should read.

This book will give you nightmares, but it is a MUST read.

John Walsh and Susan Schindehette have done an excellent job in bringing the nightmare of child abduction and lack of victim's rights into focus within the pages of this remarkable book. From the moment I started reading, I was hooked and drug , sometimes unwillingly, into the reality that has been Mr. Walsh's life since his six-year-old son Adam was abducted and killed on July 27, 1981. The authors spare no details and I often found myself wondering how John Walsh was able to re-examine the past in such a way that I can only imagine was like pouring salt into a wound that can never heal. The book reveals the extent that the Hollywood, Florida Police department bungled the Adam Walsh case, but even worse how this bungling occurs daily throughout the United States as victims of crimes continue to have little to no say in their own cases and investigations. The graphic reality in this book may not sit well with all readers, but I guarantee that it is a necessar! y ingredient for opening the reader's eyes to the problems that existed and exist within our legal system. The title Tears of Rage is an appropriate one for I found that the book started with tears and ended with rage, for both the Author(s) and the reader. Once you've opened the book and read the prologue, you'll find it very hard to put down.The only negative thing I have to say about the book is that since finishing it, I haven't slept all that well, because I keep dreaming about being in a situation where I want to help some abducted kid, and I keep running into road blocks. Luckily for me it is just a nightmare, for Mr. Walsh and thousands of other parents it was and is reality.