{"product_id":"book-crox","title":"The Sons of Cain","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eSerial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters\u003c\/i\u003e comes an in-depth examination of sexual serial killers throughout human history, how they evolved, and why we are drawn to their horrifying crimes.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore the term was coined in 1981, there were no \"serial killers.\" There were only \"monsters\"--killers society first understood as werewolves, vampires, ghouls and witches or, later, Hitchcockian psychos.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSons of Cain\u003c\/i\u003e--a book that fills the gap between dry academic studies and sensationalized true crime--investigative historian Peter Vronsky examines our understanding of serial killing from its prehistoric anthropological evolutionary dimensions in the pre-civilization era (c. 15,000 BC) to today. Delving further back into human history and deeper into the human psyche than \u003ci\u003eSerial Killers\u003c\/i\u003e--Vronsky's 2004 book, which has been called \"the definitive history of the phenomenon of serial murder\"--he focuses strictly on sexual serial killers: thrill killers who engage in murder, rape, torture, cannibalism and necrophilia, as opposed to for-profit serial killers, including hit men, or \"political\" serial killers, like terrorists or genocidal murderers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese sexual serial killers differ from all other serial killers in their motives and their foundations. They are uniquely human and--as popular culture has demonstrated--uniquely fascinating.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brilliance Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49378308653360,"sku":"BDcrox","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD [10]","offer_id":49378308686128,"sku":"10crox","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/crox-Square-cover.jpg?v=1773832236","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-crox","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}