The Manhunter: The Astounding True Story of the U.S. Marshal Who Tracked Down the World's Most Evil Criminals

by John Pascucci

Book Overview

For eleven years, John Pascucci tracked down the most evil people on earth. He was better at it than anyone else in the U.S. government - in part because he made himself think like the people he was... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671885189
• ISBN13: 9780671885182
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

The Manhunter is a a fantastic story of the U.S. Marshals.

I read this book years ago. This guy drove a fast car and did what he did to bring law and order to this country. Tracking Nazis and fugitives. It was a thrill ride to read. I couldn't believe it was real because it read like an action movie. I lost my first copy in a tornado, found it again and this is going to be my Christmas present to myself.

for $0.01 - nice variation on Cop-Autobiography

While the other reviewers may call the author names, none dispute that he actually was a US Marshal etc. If you had to read only one cop-autobio, I think you'll get more enlightenment from John Douglas' MINDHUNTER. But having read that, you would get a broader picture by reading Pascucci, rather than getting more-of-the-same from say one of Douglas's sequels. EITHER of these quality-cop-autobios can be had for less than a dollar used - great bargains, relative to say pure fiction.

Read about it or go do it yourself.

Personally I'd rather read about this sort of thing than do it. Pretty provocative stuff. If someone is going to publish a biography, they'd better have a life worth reading about. Pascucci fills that bill several times over. The book let me ride along on an intense and enthralling career, giving me second-hand experience and lingo to throw around, and fuel for imagination. There are some downsides. The writing is distractingly mediocre. Pascucci has an ego so obese that it leaves little room for the reader, but a good deal of room for skepticism. Sometimes I wanted to yell at the book, "okay, you're God's gift to truth, justice and the American way. Shut up, already." but I kept reading, anyway, to the credit of the book. But the ego is part of the package. After a little surfing, I didn't find any evidence to argue that he really was the greatest modern manhunter. The only substantial criticism I'd level against the book was that it spent too much time on numbers, names, statistics, and bureaucratic run-downs and showed almost nothing of his supposed genius for "getting inside the heads" of the men he hunted, how he went about it, or the details of how it adversely affected him. That was why I'd gotten the book in the first place. But I still don't feel it was a wasted read (and my reading time is about as thin as it could be). If you watch cop shows or crime movies, I'd recommend it. But as I said in the title, if you work in a law enforcement capacity, avoid it. It will only annoy you. Cops are as bad as women, if you know what I mean.

A must read

I read this book about an exceptional Marshal. He did everything from weasel deals to breaking the law. But he did it to protect America. He put the Marshals Service ahead of himself. Any man that does that on a daily basis deserves our respect. This book is a true account of his actions as a Marshal and should be read by everyone that thinks that we are too soft on criminals these days. If we had a few more Pascuccis out there protecting us then we could be a safer country. For all that like knowing the truth about things...this book is for you.

Good book; the man is quite sure of himself

Not that thats a bad thing. In that line of work, you need to the HMFIC or at least a bad MF to get some of that crap done. Quite a journey this fella had. Whats he do now for a rush, shock himself with a defribillator? It seems the book goes from one rush to the next. Dedication to the job.......thats it.

Outstanding!

I liked this book. It was exciting and fast paced. Ifound it hard to put down. Pascucci is not a nice guy but could a nice guy do what he did? Or would he want to? There seems to be a Lexis news account to back up every one of his stories. Would he have those endorsements on the book jacket if what he did wasn't true? How did he go from rookie to number five guy in nine years if these stories weren't true. Surely not because of his friends. What is an accurate representation of the Marshals anyway? Ruby Ridge where cowardice and incompetence saw a boy and his dog gunned down or a deputy losing his gun to prisoners in a prison elevator causing the death of real cops trying to save them? No. It is a window of Marshal history when against the odds the Marshals did what needed to be done. Maybe not every instructor and new recruit was taken into the confidence of the head marshal and Pascucci was not the only one to do extraordinary things. The Marshals also got CIA terrorist Edmond wilson, kidnapped the killer