Anyone You Want Me to Be : A True Story of Sex and Death on the Internet

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Summary: A shocking rendition of longstanding crime
Review: The title of this book is misleading because the internet is not even referred to until more than 1/2 way through it. It is a tale of a married man from an average family who from scamming business after business to luring young women away from their families to participate in sex slave rings, internet use to follow.
Readers may not like the fact that the book is not told with an ongoing story but rather a more documentary presentation. It does not contain a smooth running story with the :evildoer" as a focus in a continuing lifeline. Finally if you don't like that more straightforward style you may not like this book.

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Summary: Scary as can be...
Review: This is my fifth John Douglas book, the first I've read with Stephen Singular. Like many true crime books, it is not great literature. The story feels stretched out for extra drama over too many pages and the books strays off into Douglas' discourse on cybercrime fighting it loses it's momentum. The sections on cybercrime fighting should have been in the appendix. John Douglas is a passionate crusader for both law enforcement and victim's rights, but he really was a snooze here--his knowledge of the internet is not very deep and the listing of government agencies is bland. However, the John Robinson story was completely new to me. He is truly a one of a kind serial killer...from white collar criminal to murderer is not the "usual" route. I wonder if he is proud of being the first internet serial killer. His wife Nancy is also a tragic, yet frightening woman. How could she not know? Or more likely, how could she deny, deny, deny his nature? Wow. However, the focus should remain on the monsterous deeds of JR. He again shows us the banality of evil. Not great literature, but a fascinating case that I had never even heard of until I read this book.

Rating:
Summary: Scary as can be...
Review: This is my fifth John Douglas book, the first I've read with Stephen Singular. Like many true crime books, it is not great literature. The story feels stretched out for extra drama over too many pages and the books strays off into Douglas' discourse on cybercrime fighting it loses it's momentum. The sections on cybercrime fighting should have been in the appendix. John Douglas is a passionate crusader for both law enforcement and victim's rights, but he really was a snooze here--his knowledge of the internet is not very deep and the listing of government agencies is bland. However, the John Robinson story was completely new to me. He is truly a one of a kind serial killer...from white collar criminal to murderer is not the "usual" route. I wonder if he is proud of being the first internet serial killer. His wife Nancy is also a tragic, yet frightening woman. How could she not know? Or more likely, how could she deny, deny, deny his nature? Wow. However, the focus should remain on the monsterous deeds of JR. He again shows us the banality of evil. Not great literature, but a fascinating case that I had never even heard of until I read this book.