The remains of the first victim were found in the woods outside Rostov-on-Don in the former Soviet Union in 1982. There would be fifty-two more bodies over the next eight years, all savagely slashed and sexually mutilated. It became the personal mission of Rostov detective Viktor Burakov to track down this human monster.Here is the shocking true story of the manhunt for the most frighteningly brutal serial killer of modern times. As the killer stalked train stations for new young prey, Detective Burakov stalked him, while an archaic Soviet system put every obstacle in his way. Overwhelmed by the sheer horror of the killer’s deeds and haunted by the specters of the dead, Burakov broke the rules of Soviet police work: he secretly asked a psychiatrist to create a psychological profile of the killer, which allowed Burakov to get inside the mind of the world’s most dangerous man....