<p><b>**THE INSTANT <i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER**</b><br><br><b>"It¿s a mark of the highest honor when I say it¿s even more riveting than an episode of ''Dateline''."<br></b><b><i>¿The New York Times</i><br><br>From Paul Holes, the detective who found the Golden State Killer, <i>Unmasked </i>is a memoir that "grabs its reader in a stranglehold and proves more fascinating than fiction and darker than any noir narrative." (<i>LA Magazine</i>)</b><br><br>I order another bourbon, neat. This is the drink that will flip the switch. I don¿t even know how I got here, to this place, to this <i>point</i>. Something is happening to me lately. I¿m drinking too much. My sheets are soaking wet when I wake up from nightmares of decaying corpses. I order another drink and swig it, trying to forget about the latest case I can¿t shake.<br><br>Crime solving for me is more complex than the challenge of the hunt, or the process of piecing together a scientific puzzle. The thought of good people suffer