The most dangerous animal of all
Subtitle: searching for my father ... and finding the Zodiac Killer
By: Gary L. Stewart with Susan Mustafa
Contributors: Mustafa, Susan D., author
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9780062313164
Subjects: Birthfathers; Adoptees; Identification; Birthparents; Serial murderers; Biography; Case studies
Description: "An explosive and historic book of true crime and an emotionally powerful and revelatory memoir of a man whose ten-year search for his biological father leads to a chilling discovery: His father is one of the most notorious--and still at large--serial killers in America. Soon after his birth mother contacted him for the first time at the age of thirty-nine, adoptee Gary L. Stewart decided to search for his biological father. It was a quest that would lead him to a horrifying truth and force him to reconsider everything he thought he knew about himself and his world. Written with award-winning author and journalist Susan D. Mustafa, The Most Dangerous Animal of All tells the story of Stewart's decade-long search for his father following a complex trail of startling twists and connections. Combing through government records and news reports and through conversations with his father's relatives and friends, Stewart turns up a host of clues, including forensic evidence, identifying his father as one of the most infamous and still-wanted serial killers in American history"--Publisher description.

In this gripping narrative, an award-winning author and journalist tells the story of a 39-year-old adoptee who discovered that his birth father is one of the most infamous and still-wanted serial killers in American history, forcing him to reconsider everything he thought he knew about himself and his world.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-354) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: The ice cream romance; title: Signs of the Zodiac; title: The truth deciphered.