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.
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.
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.
In the tradition of "In Cold Blood, " THE GOOD NURSE 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.
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