The Good Nurse - by Charles Graeber (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Original publication and copyright date: 2013.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>An intimate -- and frightening -- glimpse inside the mind of America's most prolific serial killer, Charles Cullen, whose 16-year long nursing career left as many as 400 dead.</b> <p/> After his December 2003 arrest, registered nurse Charlie Cullen was quickly dubbed The Angel of Death by the media. But Cullen was no mercy killer, nor was he a simple monster. He was a favorite son, husband, beloved father, best friend, and celebrated caregiver. Implicated in the deaths of as many as 300 patients, he was also perhaps the most prolific serial killer in American history. <p/> Cullen's murderous career in the world's most trusted profession spanned sixteen years and nine hospitals across New Jersey and Pennsylvania. When, in March of 2006, Charles Cullen was marched from his final sentencing in an Allentown, Pennsylvania, courthouse into a waiting police van, it seemed certain that the chilling secrets of his life, career, and capture would disappear with him. Now, in a riveting piece of investigative journalism nearly ten years in the making, journalist Charles Graeber presents the whole story for the first time. Based on hundreds of pages of previously unseen police records, interviews, wire-tap recordings and videotapes, as well as exclusive jailhouse conversations with Cullen himself and the confidential informant who helped bring him down, The Good Nurse weaves an urgent, terrifying tale of murder, friendship, and betrayal. <p/> Graeber's portrait of Cullen depicts a surprisingly intelligent and complicated young man whose promising career was overwhelmed by his compulsion to kill, and whose shy demeanor masked a twisted interior life hidden even to his family and friends. Were it not for the hardboiled, unrelenting work of two former Newark homicide detectives racing to put together the pieces of Cullen's professional past, and a fellow nurse willing to put everything at risk, including her job and the safety of her children, there's no telling how many more lives could have been lost. <p/> In the tradition of <i>In Cold Blood, </i><i>The Good Nurse</i> does more than chronicle Cullen's deadly career and the breathless efforts to stop him; it paints an incredibly vivid portrait of madness and offers a penetrating look inside America's medical system. Harrowing and irresistibly paced, this book will make you look at medicine, hospitals, and the people who work in them, in an entirely different way.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>A gripping look into a killer's mind...THE GOOD NURSE is as suspenseful as any crime novel.--<i><b>Milwaukee Journal Sentinel</b></i><br><br>A literary thriller with legs... Meticulously crafted... a book that demonstrates the transportive power of literary journalism while simultaneously helping to restore its credibility.--<i><b>The Brooklyn Rail</b></i><br><br>A remarkable new book...gripping and brilliantly written.--<i><b>Healthcare Risk Management Review</b></i><br><br>A standout true-crime book, one that doubles as both a thrilling horror story and a cautionary tale, and frightens and frustrates in equal measure.--<i><b>The Boston Globe</b></i><br><br>A stunning book...that should and does bring to mind <i>In Cold Blood</i>....the story appeals to prurient interests, as does any graphic tale of true crime. But THE GOOD NURSE succeeds in being about much more than Mr. Cullen's murderous kinks. The causes of his pathology are not interesting. But the eagerness of ambitious hospital administrators to cover up his misdeeds is revelatory. And the police investigation that brought him down is a thriller in every sense of that word.--<b>Janet Maslin</b>, <i><b>New York Times</b></i><br><br>A very scary book. It will reach out and grab you and not let you go. You will forgo food, talking, work, anything just to get to the climactic moment of this true crime story.--<i><b>Pittsburgh Post-Gazette</b></i><br><br>Absolutely frightening.--<i><b>The Detroit News</b></i><br><br>Alarming--<i><b>CNN.com</b></i><br><br>Engrossing...hard-to-put-down.. On one level, The Good Nurse is an absorbing story of a serial killer operating within the walls of what most view as a trusted institution. On another, it's an intriguing detective story. And on another it's an indictment of the hospital industry.--<i><b>The New Jersey Star-Ledger</b></i><br><br>Fascinating and frightening... A scary page turner about one man's quiet reign of terror, those dedicated and brave enough to end it, and the dangers that can lurk in the places we may feel safest. --<i><b>BookReporter</b></i><br><br>Graeber doesn't pull punches... A deeply unsettling addition to the true crime genre.--<i><b>Publishers Weekly</b></i><br><br>Put this one on the shelf next to Ann Rule's classic about Ted Bundy, The Stranger Beside Me - it's that good. <b>Grade: A</b>--<i><b>Entertainment Weekly</b></i><br><br>Riveting--<i><b>People</b></i><br><br>The most terrifying book published this year. It is also one of the most thoughtful.... From a long series of conversations with Cullen, the detectives who solved the case and Amy, a nurse who once was Cullen's best friend and eventually got him to confess, among many other sources, Graeber has crafted a book that is a revelation. THE GOOD NURSE is gripping, sad, suspenseful, rhythmic and beautifully documented (the endnotes to this book are impressive).--<i><b>Kirkus Reviews</b></i><br><br>The story is consistently incredible, but credit it you must, for it is the truth... I couldn't put this book down.--<i><b>PopMatters</b></i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Charles Graeber</b> is the Edgar Award-nominated, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Good Nurse</i>. Winner of the Overseas Press Club award for outstanding international journalism, he has contributed to numerous publications, including <i>Wired, GQ, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek</i>, and the <i>New York Times</i>. His work has been included in <i>The Best American Science Writing, The Best American Crime Writing</i>, and other anthologies. Born in Iowa, he's now based out of Brooklyn, NY.
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