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Long Haul by Frank Figliuzzi

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Long Haul

Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

Frank Figliuzzi

HarperCollins · Print & ebook · May 28, 2024

Reading lane: Serial Killers

"A true-crime masterpiece." — Don Winslow A Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award Finalist (Best Fact Crime) From the FBI’s former assistant director, a shocking journey to the dark side of America’s highways, revealing the FBI Highway Serial Killings Initiative’s hunt for the long-haul truckers behind an astonishing 850 murders–and counting.

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Why This Clicks

Cold Trail

Edgy true crime with a hard, forward pull.

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  • highway killings, handled with a cold edge
  • a steady, unnerving true-crime drive

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  • sustained narrative tension
  • crime-fiction-adjacent momentum

Book Details

Authors
Frank Figliuzzi
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published
May 28, 2024
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Serial Killers · Mass Murder Cases
Reading lane
Serial Killers

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Publisher Categories

  • Lives in Law Enforcement

  • Policing & Law Enforcement

  • Intelligence & Spycraft

  • Criminology

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  • Violence in Society

  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Trafficking

  • Transportation

  • Serial Killers

About This Book

"A true-crime masterpiece." — Don Winslow A Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award Finalist (Best Fact Crime) From the FBI’s former assistant director, a shocking journey to the dark side of America’s highways, revealing the FBI Highway Serial Killings Initiative’s hunt for the long-haul truckers behind an astonishing 850 murders–and counting. In 2004, the FBI was tipped off to a gruesome pattern of unsolved murders along American roadways. Today at least 850 homicides have...

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"A true-crime masterpiece." — Don Winslow A Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award Finalist (Best Fact Crime) From the FBI’s former assistant director, a shocking journey to the dark side of America’s highways, revealing the FBI Highway Serial Killings Initiative’s hunt for the long-haul truckers behind an astonishing 850 murders–and counting. In 2004, the FBI was tipped off to a gruesome pattern of unsolved murders along American roadways. Today at least 850 homicides have been linked to a solitary breed of predators: long-haul truck drivers. They have been given names like the “Truck Stop Killer,” who rigged a traveling torture chamber in the rear of his truck and is suspected to have killed fifty women, and “The Interstate Strangler,” who once answered a phone call from his mother while killing one of his dozen victims. The crisis was such that the FBI opened a special unit, the Highway Serial Killings Initiative. In many cases, the victims—often at-risk women—are picked up at truck stops in one jurisdiction, sexually assaulted and murdered in another, and dumped along a highway in a third place. The transient nature of the offenders and multiple jurisdictions involved make these cases incredibly difficult to solve. Based on his own on-the-ground research and drawing on his twenty-five-year career as an FBI special agent, Frank Figliuzzi investigates the most terrifying cases. He also rides in a big-rig with a long-haul trucker for thousands of miles, gaining an intimate understanding of the life and habits of drivers and their roadside culture. And he interviews the courageous trafficked victims of these crimes, and their inspiring efforts to now help others avoid similar fates. Long Haul is a gripping exploration of a violent, disordered world hiding in plain sight, and the heroes racing to end the horror. It will forever unsettle how you travel on the road. Shortlisted for four 2025 True Crime Awards

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