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The New York Times Sunday Book Review Editors' Choice "John Leake has written the definitive book - dispassionate, superbly detailed..." "I am an ex–bank robber who served nine years in prisons all across the country, so I have met my fair share of brazen criminals. But I have never heard about anyone with Jack Unterweger's unbridled audacity. Even seasoned ex-con friends of mine found it difficult to believe Jack's story wasn't fiction." Entering Hades [The Vienna Woods Killer] selected as one of Entertainment Weekly's Top 11 Reviews "John Leake gives Chris Petit a salutary lesson on the dangers of charm in The Vienna Woods Killer." "Though Leake's account takes one heart-stopping turn after another, it never crosses the line into sensationalism." "John Leake builds up a mesmerising portrait of a Jekyll-and-Hyde figure who drew women into his double life like rabbits before a cobra." "Leake has conducted prodigious research, and seems to have interviewed just about everyone who had any relevant contact...with the psychopathic killer." "I loved it...heartily to be recommended to a wide range of readers." "...reads more like a good crime novel and it's not until you look at the notes and list of sources that you realise that this is all dreadful fact." "Unterweger's story remains obscure here perhaps because it was overshadowed first by the state trial of the officers in the Rodney King beating and then by the O.J. Simpson case. John Leake's fascinating book [The Vienna Woods Killer] is sure to change that." "Then a story comes a long that is too wild even for fiction...a propulsive narrative that has the feel of a thriller." "This anatomy of an antihereo describes a psychopath worthy of Patricia Highsmith's fiction--a Mr. Ripley with media savvy."
"[The Vienna Woods Killer] achieves a cinematic quality...But unlike Silence of the Lambs, Unterweger's story is real...compelling."
"Leake...juggles chronology and countries, literary escapades and murder, with dazzling storytelling skills."
"...page turning, savagely intimate...a cracking good true-crime tale that...readers will not soon forget." "The raw, graphic details of his subject's intricately calculated murders will surely be a draw for fans of Cold Case Files. . .Impeccably researched, memorably gruesome." "Maybe only women can understand the appeal of a man like this. Part Casanova, part Beau Brummel, part Ted Bundy. I couldn't get enough of him." "Leake mined Unterweger's personal papers, including the prison
writings, to develop a deep and foreboding portrait of a clever,
nimble killer." "To me, the best story is one where the reader doesn't read a story but instead lives it with each page turn.
John Leake is an author to keep an eye on as his career progresses. If this is just a taste of his potential, we have a banquet to look forward to in further works." "This nonfiction account reads like the most thrilling of murder mysteries...an enthralling, sinister tale."
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