{"product_id":"2940172611193","title":"Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present","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\u003eBefore the term was coined in 1981, there were no \"serial killers.\" There were only \"monsters\"amp;mdash;killers society first understood as werewolves, vampires, ghouls and witches or, later, Hitchcockian psychos.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSons of Cain\u003c\/i\u003eamp;mdash;a book that fills the gap between dry academic studies and sensationalized true crimeamp;mdash;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\u003eamp;mdash;Vronsky's 2004 book, which has been called \"the definitive history of the phenomenon of serial murder\"amp;mdash;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\u003eThese sexual serial killers differ from all other serial killers in their motives and their foundations. They are uniquely human andamp;mdash;as popular culture has demonstratedamp;mdash;uniquely fascinating.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brilliance Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47151134474480,"sku":"2940172611193","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940172611193_p0.jpg?v=1763842692","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940172611193","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}