Ted Bundy: An Analysis of the Face of Evil — Spanish eBook

Ted Bundy: An Analysis of the Face of Evil

A young, well-mannered man crosses a sunlit beach with his arm in a sling and asks for help carrying a sailboat. There is nothing sinister about the scene—and that is precisely its purest form of horror. “Ted Bundy: The Face of Evil” begins with that ordinary moment to reconstruct, with the pulse of a novel and the rigor of investigation, how one man turned other people’s courtesy into a weapon.

Max Goldman does not write the encyclopedia of a killer: he writes the hours. The early morning when Lynda Ann Healy ceased to be in her room; midday at Lake Sammamish, when two women disappeared on the same day in broad daylight; the seconds of lucid panic in which Carol DaRonch refused to remain polite and survived. Around those scenes, the book uncompromisingly unfolds the apparatus that explains them—criminology, forensic psychiatry, and a psychoanalytic reading of the subject—without allowing any theory to become an alibi for the myth.

This is not a book about an exceptional monster, but about the unsettling normality that made him possible. And above all, it is a book that restores the center to those whom the history of true crime usually pushes to the margins: the victims, their names, their interrupted lives. A work that reads with the hollow in the stomach of the best fiction and the responsibility of the best reportage, and that offers no comfort: only the obligation to look and remember.