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  • Hunting the Unabomber

  • The FBI, Ted Kaczynski, and the Capture of America’s Most Notorious Domestic Terrorist
  • By: Lis Wiehl, Lisa Pulitzer
  • Narrated by: Lis Wiehl
  • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
  • 3.3 out of 5 stars (11 ratings)

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Hunting the Unabomber

By: Lis Wiehl, Lisa Pulitzer
Narrated by: Lis Wiehl
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Summary

The spellbinding account of the most complex and captivating manhunt in American history.

On April 3, 1996, a team of FBI agents closed in on an isolated cabin in remote Montana, marking the end of the longest and most expensive investigation in FBI history. The cabin's lone inhabitant was a former mathematics prodigy and professor who had abandoned society decades earlier. Few people knew his name, Theodore Kaczynski, but everyone knew the mayhem and death associated with his nickname: the Unabomber.

For two decades, Kaczynski had masterminded a campaign of random terror, killing and maiming innocent people through bombs sent in untraceable packages. The FBI task force charged with finding the perpetrator of these horrifying crimes grew to 150 people, yet his identity remained a maddening mystery. Then, in 1995, a "manifesto" from the Unabomber was published in the New York Times and Washington Post, resulting in a cascade of tips - including the one that cracked the case.

Hunting the Unabomber includes:

  • Exclusive interviews with key law enforcement agents who attempted to track down Kaczynski, correcting the history distorted by earlier films and streaming series
  • Never-before-told stories of inter-agency law enforcement conflicts that changed the course of the investigation
  • An in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at why the hunt for the Unabomber was almost shut down by the FBI

New York Times best-selling author and former federal prosecutor Lis Wiehl meticulously reconstructs the white-knuckle, tension-filled hunt to identify and capture the mysterious killer. This is a can't-miss, true crime thriller of the years-long battle of wits between the FBI and the brilliant-but-criminally insane Ted Kaczynski.

"A powerful dual narrative of the unfolding investigation and the life story of Ted Kaczynski.... The action progresses with drama and nail-biting intensity, the conclusion foregone yet nonetheless compelling. A true-crime masterpiece." (Booklist, starred review)

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©2020 Lis Wiehl and Lisa Pulitzer (P)2020 Thomas Nelson
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Awful narration. Bad on every level

It's impossible to overstate how dreadful this narration is. Listening to the author trip over every sentence is painful and so distracting I couldn't get close to finishing the book.

The pace is wrong, the emphasis on words is wrong. It feels like the author can't wait to get out of the studio and do something else.

This is what happens when a book gets destroyed by its own author.

There is zero awareness of pacing, emphasis, tone or drama.

Save your money, the author did!

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Disappointed

The subject of this book is of interest but it is totally let down by its amateurish reading,bad editing and production. I would recommend the book but in this form.

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Like listening to someone read out their homework

I have no idea whether this is a good book or not because I could only stand listening to the intro and part of the first chapter before the author's voice drove me to distraction. Please authors: I appreciate that finding a professional narrator adds to the cost of your book but to listen to you stumble through your own text, emphasising wrong words, squawking shrill-ly with indignation at points but otherwise just a monotonous drone makes enduring listening to you beyond my endurance.

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