Zátah na ďábla – Lourie Richard (2022)

It deals with the life, capture, interrogations, and victims of the mass murderer and cannibal Chikatilo. Twelve years of brutal crimes! Ten days to convict the perpetrator! Will Andrei Chikatilo confess, or will he be released? The book will undoubtedly become a classic of true crime stories. It narrates how one of the best detectives, an expert in the psychology of serious criminals, captures a refined, seemingly harmless yet bloody psychopath. Fifty-three mutilated corpses of women and children! Sexual cannibalism! No witnesses! Not a single trace! The population in panic! An incompetent police force! The case is taken over by Inspector Issa Kostojev from the Department of Investigation of Particularly Serious Crimes of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office. In 1990, after five years of tireless work, the operation against Chikatilo dramatically culminates. Kostojev must psychologically break the arrested man. The interrogation is the toughest game he has ever played. A duel between two men takes place for ten days in a closed room, with freedom or death at stake. The book was created in exclusive collaboration with Inspector Kostojev. It is a thrilling narrative about brilliant detective strategy leading to success, to the defeat of insidious, unspeakable evil. I am characterized by openness, unlimited warmth, and kindness. And...