Zodiac: The Shocking True Story of the Hunt for the Nation's Most Elusive Serial Killer

New York Timesbestselling author Robert Graysmiths investigation of Californias unsolved Zodiac murders.

A sexual sadist, he took pleasure in torture and murder. His first victims were a teenage couple, stalked and shot dead in a lovers lane. After another slaying, he sent his first mocking note to authorities, promising he would kill more.The official tally of his victims was six. He claimed thirty-seven dead. The real toll may have reached fifty.

Robert Graysmith was on staff at the San Francisco Chronicle in 1969 when Zodiac first struck, triggering in the resolute reporter an unrelenting obsession with seeing the hooded killer brought to justice. In this gripping account of Zodiacs eleven-month reign of terror, Graysmith reveals hundreds of facts previously unreleased, including the complete text of the killers letters.