The Mad Bomber of New York
Subtitle: The Extraordinary True Story of the Manhunt That Paralyzed a City
Publisher: Union Square Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781402774348
Copyright date: 2011
Description: From the back cover:

<em>One </em><strong>MAD MAN.</strong>

<em>Thirty-three </em><strong>BOMBS.</strong>

<em>A sixteen-year-long </em><strong>MANHUNT.</strong>

<em>And the city of New York </em><strong>HELD HOSTAGE.</strong>

This is the extraordinary true story of George Metesky, New York's "Mad Bomber," who single-handedly carried out a reign of terror that would span sixteen years, and reverberate forever through the social, legal, and political landscape of America. It is the fascinating story of a manhunt that would ultimately lead a frustrated New York City Police Department to a little-known crime psychiatrist in an effort to identify and capture the Mad Bomber and create in its wake the birth of modern criminal profiling.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: War and Peace; title: I: "A Real Boom Town"; title: II: Hell Gate; title: III: The Seeds of Madness; title: IV: "Selected by Destiny"; title: V: "A Man with a Hammer"; title: VI: Chasing Shadows; title: VII: The "Twelfth Street Prophet"; title: VIII: "The Greatest Manhunt in the History of the Police Department"; title: IX: A City in Turmoil; title: X: Profile of a Bomber; title: XI: Christmas in Manhattan; title: XII: "An Innocent and Almost Absurdly Simple Thing"; title: XIII: "Plenty of Whacks"; title: XIV: "The Four Fishermen"; title: XV: Alice Kelly; title: XVI: "The Price of Peace"; title: Photo Insert; title: XVII: "Your Next Door Neighbor"; title: XVIII: Rewards, Accolades, and Accusations; title: XIX: A Question of Competency; title: XX: "As Plain as the Nose on Your Face"; title: XXI: "His Days on Earth are Numbered"; title: XXII: The Birth of Criminal Profiling; title: XXIII: Right from Wrong; title: XXIV: Matteawan; title: Epilogue; title: Acknowledgments; title: Author's Note on Sources; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: About the Author