{"product_id":"perfect-victimisbn-9780440204429","title":"Perfect Victim","description":"\u003cb\u003e“True crime at its most shocking, most harrowing, and . . . most thought-provoking.”—\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1977 twenty-year-old Colleen Stan left home to hitchhike from Oregon to California. Seven years later she emerged from hell, the victim of a bizarre and extraordinary crime.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is Colleen's incredible true story, told by the determined young district attorney who prosecuted the man who had forced her to endure years of sexual perversion . . . and held her captive in a coffin-like box under his and his wife's bed. A story of riveting psychological intensity and gripping courtroom drama, \u003ci\u003ePerfect Victim \u003c\/i\u003ereveals the whole truth about Collen Stan's real-life nightmare . . . and the psychopath who enslaved her body and her mind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Horrifying!”—The Cincinnati Post\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Hard to put down!”—Chicago Tribune\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A gripping and disturbing story of the secret life of apparently normal people. At once, horrific and engrossing.”—Vincent Bugliosi, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eHelter Skelter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“True crime at its most shocking, most harrowing, and . . . most thought-provoking.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Horrifying!”\u003cb\u003e—The Cincinnati Post\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Hard to put down!”\u003cb\u003e—Chicago Tribune\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A gripping and disturbing story of the secret life of apparently normal people. At once, horrific and engrossing.”\u003cb\u003e—Vincent Bugliosi, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eHelter Skelter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristine McGuire\u003c\/b\u003e is a veteran prosecutor of murder cases in a California District Attorney's office. She has taught at the academy of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Quantico, Virginia. Her first book, \u003ci\u003ePerfect Victim,\u003c\/i\u003e a nonfiction account of a sexual enslavement case, was a #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarla Norton\u003c\/b\u003e is a novelist and true crime writer. Her books include \u003ci\u003ePerfect Victim, Disturbed Ground, What Doesn’t Kill Her,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Edge of Normal\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Dell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304327598309,"sku":"NP9780440204429","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780440204428_9bd77cda-ee3a-4b89-b3e8-1ac7bae6ed66.jpg?v=1730756977","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/perfect-victimisbn-9780440204429","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}