Conversations With the Capeman: The Untold Story of Salvador Agron

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This is an epic story about race in America, the tragic legacy of colonialism, and the inhumanity of the prison system.

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A gripping true story, a must read!.......2007-04-09

Conversations with the Capeman is an absolutely stunning, beautifully written book about the life of convicted murderer Salvador Agron. Richard Jacoby weaves a brilliant and sensitive memoir of his real-life interviews and relationship with Agron. Jacoby paints a compelling, unbiased portrait of a tragic life; from Agron's youth as a member of a violent New York street gang to his conviction for a murder that he may not have committed, to life beyond prison. This impossible to put down book reads as if one is watching a motion picture. It involves all the elements of a modern-day epic; heartbreak, mystery, deception, love, friendship, redemption, and ultimate tragedy. This novel, of all the books I have read, has had the biggest impact on me...Simply amazing.

Riveting, heartbreaking and triumphant--an emotional masterpiece.......2005-09-21

Each page of this beautifully written book brings raw emotion to the surface. Richard Jacoby paints a vivid picture of the poverty stricken, abusive childhood that surer than any court sentenced Salvador Agron to a life of alienation and despair. Yet despite being the youngest person ever sent to New York State's electric chair, Agron possessed a spark of human spirit that would not die. It is Jacoby's great accomplishment that he lets Agron's story speak for itself as he takes us through the dark alleys of Puerto Rico, the doo-wop drenched streets of New York and the cold corridors of state prisons where despair is plentiful, yet hope lives. If you want to know why we should treat our kids better and why giving people in trouble a second chance is NOT some mushy-headed idea, read this extremely engaging book.

Powerful.......2004-08-26

This insightful, sensitively written book which brings to light Salvador Agron's life that was imprinted by race, sexual abuse and the condemnation of society gave me not only a new awareness of the criminal justice system, but of human redemption as well. Reading Conversations with the Capeman was a powerful eye-opening experience.

Blew me away.......2004-08-17

Conversations with the Capeman, the story on which the musical Westside Story is loosely based, blew me away. I literally read this 500+ page book in two days. I almost could not sleep for want of finishing it on the first day.

The life of Salvador Agron provides a window into humanity that society tends to overlook when confronted with a crime in light of the death penalty. Mr. Agron's life can be viewed as social commentary that makes this a very important look at our penal system but more importantly it renders him human.....not an evil animal. The loyalty that Salvador garnered from people he didn't even know was overwelming. This is the first book that ever brought me to tears to the point that I could barely see the words on the page while reading the last two chapters.

I subsequently bought Paul Simon's Songs from the Capeman and was pretty impressed by the way that he captures Salvadors life in music.

A Journey.......2000-12-06

In Conversations with the Capeman, Richard Jacoby brings to light with concise objectivity, and yet a fierce sense of empathetic compassion for his fellowman, the bizarre and wretched existence of Salvador Agron. Jacoby, through both letters and a personal observation of Agron during their twenty year relationship...takes his readers on a horrifying journey with the capeman. From the mean streets of New York's Spanish Harlem where he roamed 'till the age of sixteen as a mindless, illiterate young predator...throughout his twenty odd years where he experienced the entire cycle of hell in New York's prison system. From the initial empty minded rebel, to the well read psuedo-revolutionary, tutored by elders in Marx..Lenin..Mao..Franz Fanon, etc. ... to Jesus Christ for some sense of redemption, to homosexuality to fill the emptiness in a soul where nobody had ever truly lived. And finally, culminating in death shortly after his release from prison. Salvador Agron was never to know a serene existence. But as small miracles would have it, the dehumanization process was over, and somehow, I couldn't help but lay this book down with the feeling that the "Capemans" ultimate victim was, Salvador Agron.

Action Spanish for Law Enforcement: Spanish for Beginners (Bk w/CD)

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Action Spanish for Law Enforcement: Spanish for Beginners (Bk w/CD)
Michael Kane , Barbara Welder , and Dalel Cortés
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A good study guide, but..............2005-09-10

I purchased this book for a friend as a graduation gift from the academy. It is very useful for study, especially with the CD. However, it not suited for field use as it is the size of a regular text book. I certainly recommend it however, purchasing an additional pocket guide for the street is a must.

Ted Bundy: Conversations with a Killer (Signet)

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TED BUNDY SPEAKS ABOUT THE PATHOLOGY OF THE KILLER INSTINCT
Blah blah blah
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Ted Bundy: Conversations with a Killer (Signet)
Stephen G. Michaud , and Hugh Aynsworth
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TED BUNDY

Conversations With A Killer

The Death Row Interviews

By Stephen G. Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth

Ted Bundy: Conversations With A Killer, the death row interviews that chilled the nation in the 1980's, are again available in an updated paperback edition through major bookstores and online booksellers.

Drawn from more than 150 hours of taped interviews by authors Stephen G. Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth, CONVERSATIONS WITH A KILLER takes readers inside the mind of an infamous sex criminal (one of the best-known serial killers of the past 100 years). In these timeless and unique interviews, Bundy gives both law enforcement professionals and the general public a close look at how this special breed of criminal thinks and behaves.

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Can't Recommend It.......2007-06-25

I found this little number in my local used bookstore. Having been fascinated with Ted Bundy over the last couple of years but yet to read anything in depth about him, I bought it, hoping to learn something new.

Unfortunately, "Conversations With A Killer"'s biggest flaw is Bundy himself. I feel really bad for Michaud and Aynesworth; they honestly try to write a ground-breaking book about the case, and Bundy promises them before the interviews that he will reveal to them "the truth about everything." How could any print journalist say no? Rather than embarking on the horizon of a new look at Ted Bundy, however, the duo are instead treated to interview after interview of Bundy whipping them around this way and that, never once giving them the kind of information they need.

After initially being asked point-blank about his whereabouts during the crimes he is committed of and clamming up immediately, Bundy is instead offered the ability to speak of these crimes in the third-person, freeing him from self-incrimination. Instead of offering any new outlooks, however, Bundy dances about, choosing to "speculate" about the killer's mental workings and treating us to paragraph after paragraph of half-baked, psycho-analytical noodlings. I'm surprised Michaud and Aynesworth didn't fall asleep while interviewing him; when Bundy's not pumping his side of the testimony full of mostly-nonsensical, winding explanations of the "killer's" mindset, he chooses to be very vague about his choice of words, offering a lot of "could be" and "might have been that, also might have been this" and "I don't know". And, of course, he denies absolutely everything about his involvement in these crimes, standing infuriatingly adamant about his innocence all the while. Michaud and Ayneworth ask him numerous times about his whereabouts during crimes or about the testimony of witnesses, and Bundy is rarely ever able to give them an answer, either sidestepping the question and weaseling his way into another subject, or simply refusing to answer at all.

The book does have a few positive marks, as few as they are. The first few chapters of the book do offer a decent, albiet selective, history of Bundy from youth to the (then) present, revealing an education in words passed on by his mother, crippling shyness during high school, and his strange fetish with socks. Also detailed are his struggles with bi-polar disorder, using his escape from jail in Glenwood Springs as a compelling example. Lastly, one can glimpse some truths behind Bundy's words, including the dangerous influences that both "stress" and pornography had on his transformation into a serial killer. However, while these are great tidbits for a newcomer to Bundy's persona, they're not nearly enough to provide one with a fulfilling look at the man and his life & doings.

As for Michaud and Aynesworth, they humble Bundy at the beginning and are eager to try new approaches, but as the book is chronological, it is easy to grasp their growing impatience with Ted's mind games. Aynesworth gets especially agitated, and his multiple outbursts of anger at Bundy (only to be met with smiles, jokes, denial, irritation, and sidestepping on Bundy's end) are by far the most interesting parts of the book. And that's got to be a sad statement: that the anger of one of the authors at the subject of the book is ultimately more interesting than the sum of the book's parts.

I can't really recommend it. Only those truly interested in Ted Bundy or the way his mind works could grasp much enjoyment out of it. Much of the book will just bore you to tears. An interesting first look at Bundy, it proved to be a vastly unfulfilling one for me, and I hope that Ann Rule's "The Stranger Beside Me" will prove to be much better. Good luck next time, Steve and Hugh.

A big let-down.......2006-05-25

Pages and pages of verbatim interviews with a megalomaniac, even one as twisted as Ted Bundy, get dull after a while. It would be a necessary reference book for anybody writing a doctoral thesis on Bundy or the psychopathic mind, but really holds little interest for the average reader.

TED BUNDY SPEAKS ABOUT THE PATHOLOGY OF THE KILLER INSTINCT.......2005-10-11

Ted Bundy murdered over 30 women in the late 70's and has a kind of cult status among people who are obsessed with serial killers and voilence, which is not why I read this book. I read this book because I was hoping it would shed light on a problem which seems to be a product of modern American society.
The First half of this book is very interesting. Ted creates a hypothetical psychological model of a killer and in the third person describes how this person developed from a regular guy with deep emotion issues into a full fledged mass murder. That part of the book is very frightening and thought provoking. Ted describes the killer's initial fascination with alcohol and violent pornography. From there he describes the slow progress of the killer instict: how his trips to the pornographic book stores became more frequent and urgent, how he spent a year spying in women's house before almost attacking a woman one night, followed months later by an actual attack, then a rape and killing.He also describes the killer's remorse between killings and his frequent promises that this would be the last one.
Toward the middle of the book it gets pretty boring. The second interviewer takes over and keeps trying to get Ted to admit his guilt, which he won't do. Most of the answers in this half of the book are evasive and tiringly repetitive.
It is redeemed in the last interview in which Ted makes some rather interesting statements about how it is our society which creates the serial killer. He also talks about how this a problem which manifests itself rather early in the life of these sick men,and what's even more frightening, he states that for every man arrested for multiple homicide there are five or six more that are not caught. With a little money, Ted states, a man can kill indiscriminately for the rest of his life without fear of detection. This book is a must read for anyone interested in Abnormal Psychology.

Blah blah blah.......2005-06-11

First, I want to say that I love Ted Bundy and reading anything about him. That's why this book got 3 stars instead of maybe 1 or 2. From everything else I've read about him, this is nothing new. And the way it's presented is so BORING. You can see how manipulative Ted is in his monologues which are often verbose. A lot of times he doesn't make much sense.

If you've read a lot about Ted Bundy, I wouldn't recommend this book. The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule is a much better book. I guess if it's your first time reading about him, it might be interesting.

Great Information.......2004-01-02

Stephen G. Michaud ,again, has done an outstanding job in writting a great book about Bundy.

There ARE some new insights not seen in other books regarding Bundy's crimes (Like details of Naslund's and Ott's murders, and some insight on Donna Manson's fate.

Bundy spent the next 10 years on Florida's Death Row, using legal tactics to delay his execution and offering confessions to his crimes in exchange for a reprieve. After years of living in denial - insisting he was innocent - Bundy finally came clean, although he referred to himself in the third person and claimed the killings were carried out by an "entity" within him.

He said he became obsessed by hardcore pornography involving sado-masochism and bondage and said he enjoyed the feeling of being in complete control of his victims. He said the primary motive was rape and that he had to kill the victims to prevent them testifying against him.

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mysterious letter alluding to the murder of Cabestan by a named killer, Dr Hubert van der Post, arouses the interests of the irascible and ever-suspicious van der Valk who decides to find out who the mysterious letter writer is. What transpires is a tale of deception and adultery as the rich, very careful character of Carl Merckel, the managing director of the Lutz Brothers merchant bank, lays an accusation of cold blooded homicide of which, he claims, his wife had no part to play.

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Criminal Conversation

Criminal Conversation
Evan Hunter
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"A special occasion" (Entertainment Weekly) in the celebrated career of Evan Hunter, Criminal Conversation goes deeper than most suspense fiction dares -- inside the intimate, sensual secrets of lovers...In a chic apartment hidden within a workingclass neighborhood, Sarah and Andrew make love. Neither of them knows that their illicit affair is about to have explosive consequences -- or that their hideaway has been wired to record their every word, by a New York City prosecutor with an agenda to indict Andrew, a reputed Mafia leader. And none of them can predict where the most basic desires of the human heart -- passion, ambition, vengeance -- will lead: a life-and-death struggle inside the worlds of organized crime and legal warfare.

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"A special occasion" (Entertainment Weekly) in the celebrated career of Evan Hunter, Criminal Conversation goes deeper than most suspense fiction dares - inside the intimate, sensual secrets of lovers...In a chic apartment hidden within a workingclass neighborhood, Sarah and Andrew make love. Neither of them knows that their illicit affair is about to have explosive consequences - or that their hideaway has been wired to record their every word, by a New York City prosecutor with an agenda to indict Andrew, a reputed Mafia leader. And none of them can predict where the most basic desires of the human heart - passion, ambition, vengeance - will lead: a life-and-death struggle inside the worlds of organized crime and legal warfare.

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Another gritty, erotic tale.......2006-05-26

Three things stand out in this novel - wonderful characterization, sure knowledge of crime syndicates and an eroticism that threatens to approach soft porn. The story is simple - a mobster falls for a married lady whose husband, a district attorney, happens to be in the midst of an investigation of said Mafia guy. After Andrew rescued her daughter from drowning, straight-laced Sarah falls for and plunges into a dark, forbidden affair with a man 6 years younger.

She is consumed by the passion even as her marriage to her hard working, dull, good husband & father drifts slowly apart. She is suddenly desired & wanted & all her pent-up lust is released. At the same time, hubby is moving in for the kill by planting wire taps around the place and sure enough, one night, he hears his wife with another man - the one he wants. The ending is bitter sweet but faithful to the book - in fact, it is quite logical.

Sarah steals the show with her wistful longings, motherly concerns, spousal obligations and deep needs. The happy go lucky character of the criminal is well described as well as the day to day grunt work of the law enforcement team. Altogether, a great read.

A lot that you always wanted to know about many things.......2006-04-18

Hunter was good at getting into the details without overdoing it. Here you can learn plenty about mob culture, New York geography, police surveillances; not to forget, he could write about sex as if he knew it. All good reasons to read him.
This novel has a story line based on the rather improbable convergence of two independantly plausible narratives. We anticipate the intersection, which is the basis for a very strong suspense. Quite Hitchcockian, actually. One wonders why the film is not yet out. The movie project seems to have stalled.
The first story line is the anti-mob investigation led by a NY ADA; the second one shows the ADA's wife having an affair rather like Diane Lane in Unfaithful. The improbability is that the husband's target is the wife's playmate.
We watch the two lines getting nearer to contact step by step, and we expect the disaster.
I rather read a well written story based on an implausibility than a badly written one with the facts safe. Hunter, with his mastery in dialogue and in procedures, with his skill in psychologically convincing portraits and situations , could pull it off. We suffer with the police in their struggle with the legalities and technicalities of their surveillance. We suffer with the wife, who is a nice girl and deserves her high life, and who should somehow, we hope, avoid the disaster that is sure to come. We do not quite suffer with the young mobster, but we watch his activities with interest. The ending has been debated in some other reviews, but I think it is totally right.
One lingering complaint, a small thing: the affair begins when the young "hero" saves the ADA's daughter from drowning, while only the mother is around and the father far away; fair enough. But why do mother and daughter not seem to tell daddy the story? Why does daddy not try to meet the man who saved his daughter? Puzzling.

Fantastic.......2003-06-27

What a fantastic book! One thing I've noticed about Evan Hunter's novels is that he is able to write about female characters in a way that is utterly convincing to me, a female reader. I still have a little difficulty getting to grips with the fact that Sarah could have been written by a male author!

The novel is more 'adult' than Ed McBain novels generally are, and this is worth remembering if you don't like that kind of thing, but this is a great book, and a very good read. Very highly recommended.

Very Thought Provoking........2001-01-22

Forget the background of the mob story, although it is interesting, and realize that this is just a thrilling book about a woman having an affair. I couldn't wait to find out what happened and read the last 250 pages in one day.

I enjoyed this book so much because you could look at it from so many different angles. First of all, since I am a married male, I looked at it from Michael's point of view. His wife is cheating on him and I wanted to see what he would do when he found out. Then you could be Andrew, the man who seduces Sarah, Michael's wife. What are his motivations? Then you want to know what motivates women cheat on her husband (or a man on his wife). Thinking about that can be both chilling and thrilling.

While I liked this book a lot, I think it had a few weaknesses. Hunter does not do enough at the beginning to establish that Michael and Sarah have a great marriage or even a good marriage. I think if he had spent more time convincing the reader that these two shared a strong bond, then what had followed would be that more devasting. We know Sarah has an affair, but to be able to know exactly what she was betraying would have made her betrayal that much worse.

Also, it seems that Sarah gave herself to Andrew rather easily (not a spoiler). I guess that Andrew was charming and handsome, and that was all it took for Sarah to give away her life. Again, it would have been better to know specifics in her life with her husband that she was very unhappy with. Instead, we just get veiled references to the fact that he was working a lot.

This book has a good ending I guess. Sarah was a frustrating character because I was never truly sure why she totally abandoned Michael and surrendered to Andrew. I guess it was nothing Michael ever did, it was just that Sarah was a bad person.

I plan on checking out some more books by Hunter/Mcbain to see if they are as good as this one.

Criminal Conversation.......2000-03-13

This was my first Evan Hunter read...and now I'm hooked. A friend passed it along and I couldn't put it down! That was two years ago, and I'm still talking/raving about it! It's exciting, but easy to read!

Community Spanish for Law Enforcement : Field Guide

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Community Spanish for Law Enforcement : Field Guide
Paul Madera
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Spanish is rapidly becoming an official second language in the United States. The Community Spanish for Law Enforcement Field Guide contains direct translations for the most common terms and phrases law enforcement officers may need on the street. Translations are rapidly accessible by tabs that are organized by incident and crime type.

CRIMINAL CONVERSATIONS: VICTORIAN CRIMES, SOCIAL PANIC, & MORAL

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CRIMINAL CONVERSATIONS: VICTORIAN CRIMES, SOCIAL PANIC, & MORAL
JUDITH ROWBOTHAM
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5 Titles By Freeling - The Bugles Blowing - King of the Rainy Country - Death in Amsterdam - Criminal Conversation - Because of the Cats

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Nicolas Freeling
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The Conversion: Death Cell Conversations of 'Rooizak' and the Missionaries Lydenburg 1875

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The Conversion: Death Cell Conversations of 'Rooizak' and the Missionaries Lydenburg 1875
Peter Delius
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Criminal Conversation
Nicolas Freeling
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Could have been better.

A Touching Tale of discovery

Most captivating book I have read in a long time!

Finding Mary Blaine

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Finding Mary Blaine
Jodi Thomas
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ASIN: 0778320642

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Could have been better........2007-01-10

The book started out well and kept me reading but relied way too much on coincidence. It just went on and on and...if the TSTL woman really wanted to contact her hubby, duh - how about a letter? Postcard? Oy. Like other reviewers, I found the ending lacking. There really was no good excuse the someone to try and kill this woman. There were also too many loose ends that never got tied up and like most romance writers, Ms. Thomas made her people all too perfect - even the street folk. I wound up scanning the last 100 pages just to get through the thing.

A Touching Tale of discovery.......2005-06-28

I debated on giving this book five stars, but it just did not rank that good of a book to be catogorized with my favorites. It takes the first thirty pages to really get you interested at the beginning. From there, curiosity is only what keeps pulling you along as far as the suspense part of the book goes.
The characters and the relationship the homeless people have with one another is what this story is all about. As far as that part goes, it is five stars all the way. It was simply a heartfelt tale about a woman who had everything money could buy, yet had no life at all until she was in a tragic explosion and faced to fend for herself amongst the homeless. Her husband hardly realizes that she exists until he believes she is dead. Then he will throw away everything he has worked for to find her.
The ending was not as solid as it could have been. NO surprise endings, no clever twists in the plot. It is not a romance in the traditional sense, but that is as close to a genre as I can put this one, because the suspense is not that intense. All in all. This is a very touching story, but I recommend you check it out from the library instead of buying it.

Most captivating book I have read in a long time!.......2005-03-20

This is truely one of the most heartwarming and captivating stories I have read in quite some time! The storyline was something very new and exciting. Unlike any book I have read. I found myself bursting into tears one minute, then biting my nails in suspense as Mary (Blaine) runs for her life! My husband even got a tad angry at me because I brought this book in the car and read on our way out to eat dinner...I could not put it down..I was so captivated. I believe you will not regret reading this wonderfully written book, it will touch your heart and make you take a look around your life as to what is REALLY important in your life.

Finding Mary Blaine.......2005-02-28

I really enjoyed this book! It's got everything in it. It makes you care about the characters, appreciate relationships and see the good in everybody.

It takes the main character from a very comfortable, high-style but robotic life to living on the streets. She learns that the street people actually survive by caring for and looking out for one another. As she trys to survive that experience, in the meantime, she is being hunted by a hired killer, who quickly finds that he missed her as his target in a clinic bombing. Early on, her husband is told the worst, that she didn't survive. His feelings, and even a friendship he strikes up with an elderly neighbor, are developed.

She also discovers that even though she and her husband went through their daily routines and their relationship without much effort, she came to realize how much she really cared for him and how strong her instinct was to keep him out of harm's way.

I highly recommend this book, as I found it suspenseful, romantic and enlightening. A very good read, in my opinion.

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Will buy all books by Jodi Thomas.......2004-09-15

This book was sooooo good. Just could not put it down. Blaine had to hide from a killer and she did a great job. Highly recomend this book.

4 Titles By Thomas - The Texan's Wager - A Texan's Luck - The Secrets of Rosa Lee - Finding Mary Blaine

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4 massmarket paperback Titles By Thomas - The Texan's Wager - A Texan's Luck - The Secrets of Rosa Lee - Finding Mary Blaine

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