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Eric Rudolph: Murder, Myth, and the Pursuit of an American Outlaw
HarperCollins
November 2006
On Sale: November 7, 2006
368 pages
ISBN: 006059862X
EAN: 9780060598624
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction | True Crime
He was supposed
to be dead. Five years after Eric Rudolph escaped into the
mountains of
North Carolina, the FBI had long since abandoned the largest
manhunt
ever launched on U.S. soil. The fugitive accused of bombing
the Atlanta
Olympics, a gay bar, and two abortion clinics, leaving a
trail of
carnage across the southeast, had become a figure of folk
legend. Many
of his pursuers thought he had either skipped the country or
crawled
into a cave to die. In fact, Rudolph had been haunting the
mountains
and towns he knew best, pilfering food, stealing trucks,
stalking the
men who hunted him, and keeping his secrets buried in the
woods. Then
one night Rudolph got careless, and a rookie cop captured
him a few
miles from where he had first disappeared. But even in
custody, Rudolph
remained a mystery. In Lone Wolf, Maryanne
Vollers
brings the reader inside one of the most sensational cases
of domestic
terrorism in American history. In addition to her unprecedented
correspondence with Rudolph, Vollers had access to the FBI,
the ATF,
federal prosecutors, members of Rudolph's defense team, and
his family
to re-create the story in all its sweeping breadth and
complexity. Lone Wolf
asks the inevitable questions: Who is Eric Rudolph, and why
did he
kill? Is he the hate-filled neo-Nazi described by federal
agents, or is
he the passionate, curious, and engaging man described by
his lawyers
and his family? Can both personalities exist in one rare,
complicated,
and deadly individual? The profilers and psychologists
Vollers interviews identify Rudolph as a "lone offender," a
self-appointed avenger with no real alliances and no
meaningful social
ties. It puts Rudolph in the same category as Timothy
McVeigh, the
Oklahoma City bomber, and Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber. The
"lone wolf"
believes history will judge him to be a hero. Society judges
him to be
a monster. Without losing sight of the hideous violence of
his crimes, Lone Wolf seeks to put a human face on
this iconic killer as it explores the painful mysteries of
the human heart.
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