The Ultimate Evil: An Investigation into America's Most Dangerous Satanic Cult by Maury Terry [FIRST EDITION] 1987 • Dolphin Books • Son of Sam

The Ultimate Evil: An Investigation into America's Most Dangerous Satanic Cult by Maury Terry 

FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1987] DOLPHIN BOOKS • DOUBLEDAY

As featured in the Netflix docu-series The Sons of Sam. 

Hardcover with dust jacket in good condition.   Attractive copy with a few flaws.

Dust jacket is in excellent shape.  It does show some shelf and edge wear; but is overall clean, lustrous, vibrant and fully in tact w. an unclipped front panel with original jacket price of $17.95.  Now housed in a new HQ brodart jacket protector. 

Book itself is in good condition with flaws: 

Red cloth-bound boards are clean with light wear.   Binding is tight and pages are bright.  *Exterior text block has some staining to top edge; and some discoloration down the length.  Front endpaper is fixed to front cover.   A few pages detected with  stained or discolored margins (*see last photo) -- but nothing that affects text.  

On August 10, 1977, the NYPD arrested David Berkowitz for the "Son of Sam" murders that had terrorized New York City for more than thirteen months. Berkowitz eagerly confessed to being a lone marauder—one who had carried out eight senseless shootings with a .44 caliber Bulldog revolver. The case was officially closed. 

Journalist Maury Terry was suspicious of Berkowitz's confession. He has spent the years since that summer researching the case, meticulously gathering evidence to demonstrate that the killer did not act alone. 

In The Ultimate Evil, Terry details the chilling events, proving that Berkowitz was an affiliate of—and triggerman for—a Satanic cult known as the Process Church of the Final Judgment. Terry's work not only uncovers the cult's involvement in the "Son of Sam" murders but also finds their signature on other ritual slayings across the country. 

Since the first publication of The Ultimate Evil in 1987, new evidence about the Process Church has emerged. From his prison cell, David Berkowitz has now confirmed Maury Terry's conclusions.