Used Book in Good Condition</br></br>Product Description</br></br>THE DEFINITIVE WORK OF AMERICAN TRUE CRIME FROM "AMERICA'S BEST TRUE-CRIME WRITER" <i>(Kirkus Reviews)</i> <BR><BR> Utterly unique in its astonishing intimacy?? as jarringly frightening as when it first appeared?? Ann Rule's <i>The Stranger Beside Me</i> defies our expectation that we would surely know if a monster lived among us?? worked along" of us?? appeared as one of us. With a slow chill that intensifies with each heart-pounding page?? Rule describes her dawning awareness that Ted Bundy?? her sensitive coworker on a crisis hotline?? was one of the most prolific serial killers in America. He would confess to killing at least thirty-six young women from coast to coast?? and was eventually executed for three of those cases. Drawing from their correspondence that endured until shortly before Bundy's death?? and striking a seamless balance between her deeply personal perspective and her role as a crime reporter on the hunt for a savage serial killer -- the brilliant and charismatic Bundy?? the man she thought she knew -- Rule changed the course of true-crime literature with this unforgettable chronicle.</br></br>Amazon.com Review</br></br>Not long ago?? true crime writer Ann Rule recalls lying on an operating table. The anesthesiologist leaned over before putting her to sleep. "e anesthesiologist said softly?? "ell me?? what was Ted Bundy really like?"Despite meeting Florida's electric chair in 1989?? the subject of Rule's bestselling book continues to haunt her. Rule and Bundy were friends. They met in 1971 at a Seattle crisis clinic?? where they shared the late shift answering a suicide hotline. Their subsequent conversations?? meetings?? and letters spanned the rest of Bundy's life as he evolved into one of the century's most notorious serial killers. It's been 20 years since Rule first penned this chilling account. But the story--and her 2000 update--will still have readers reaching for their Xanax. No gratuitous gore here; just the basic?? bone-chilling evidence. In fact?? like a protective mother shielding us from horrors