A Rage to Kill by Ann Rule

A Rage to Kill (Ann Rule Crime Files Vol. 6, 1999 Softcover)

Ann Rule's Crime Files Volume 6: The Aurora Bridge Bus Shooting and Nine Other True Cases of Sudden Violence

Bibliographic Specifications

• Title: A Rage to Kill: And Other True Cases
• Author: Ann Rule
• Publisher: Pocket Star Books, New York
• Publication Date: 1999
• ISBN-10: 0671025341
• Edition Details: First Pocket Books printing, August 1999. Part of Ann Rule's Crime Files, Vol. 6.
• Binding: Publisher's illustrated glossy laminated paperback, perfect bound.
• Physical Format: Mass market softcover, roughly 180 x 110 mm. Long text, with pagination running past page 359.
• Language: English

Official Condition Report

• The Book: Very Good (VG)
• Exterior / Wraps: Glossy laminated illustrated wrappers. There is a small chip or area of paper loss to the lower edge of the front cover, near the centre. Slight pale wear shows at the top right corner of the front cover. The spine is white, clean and uncreased. The back cover is clean apart from one tiny dark speck at the lower left.
• Interior: The text block is clean and the binding is tight, opening without cracking. The pages are evenly toned, as expected for paper of this age. No writing, stamps, tears or stains are present.
• The Dust Jacket: Not Applicable (As Issued)

Synopsis & Historical Value

A Rage to Kill and Other True Cases is the sixth volume in Ann Rule's Crime Files series, published in New York by Pocket Star Books in 1999. The title story is the case of Silas Cool, who shot a Seattle bus driver and caused the bus to plunge off the Aurora Bridge into an apartment building. The crash left three dead and dozens injured.

Nine further cases complete the collection. Each concerns seemingly ordinary people driven to sudden, shocking violence, a theme Rule explored across her career with a former police officer's eye for detail and human motive.

A clean, collectible used copy of a well-known true crime collection, suited to readers who follow Ann Rule's Crime Files series.

Author Profile: Ann Rule

Ann Rule was a former Seattle police officer who became one of America's best-known true crime writers. She began by writing for true crime magazines under the name Andy Stack and became a full-time writer in 1969. She went on to write dozens of New York Times bestsellers.

Her best-known work is The Stranger Beside Me, published in 1980, her account of Ted Bundy, which became an immediate bestseller.