<b>Robert Graysmith’s <i>New York Times</i> bestselling account of the desperate hunt for a serial killer and his own investigation of California’s unsolved Zodiac murders.</b><br><br> A sexual sadist, the Zodiac killer took pleasure in torture and murder. His first victims were a teenage couple, stalked and shot dead in a lovers’ lane. After another slaying, he sent his first mocking note to authorities, promising he would kill more. The official tally of his victims was six. He claimed thirty-seven dead. The real toll may have reached fifty.<br><br>Robert Graysmith was on staff at the <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i> in 1969 when Zodiac first struck, triggering in the resolute reporter an unrelenting obsession with seeing the hooded killer brought to justice. In this gripping account of Zodiac’s eleven-month reign of terror, Graysmith reveals hundreds of facts previously unreleased, including the complete text of the killer’s letters.