On an October evening in South Pasadena, a horrifying wave of flame
swept through a large home improvement center, snuffing out the lives of
four innocent people, including a two-year-old boy. Firefighters rushed
to the scene, even as a pair of equally suspicious fires broke out in
two nearby stores. Silently watching the raging inferno in the midst of
the heat, smoke, and chaos was a man respected as one of California's
foremost arson investigators, a captain in the Glendale Fire Department
...
From Joseph Wambaugh, the critically acclaimed, nationally bestselling
author of The Onion Field, comes the astonishing true story of a
nightmarish obsession -- and the hunt for a brilliant psychopath who
lived a double life filled with professional tributes and terrifying
secrets.