FBI  Special Agent Jeff Rinek had a gift for getting child predators to  confess. All he had to do was share a piece of his soul . . .
In the Name of the Children  gives an unflinching look at what it's like to fight a never-ending  battle against an enemy far more insidious than terrorists: the  predators, lurking amongst us, who seek to harm our children.
During  his 30-year career with the FBI, Jeff Rinek worked hundreds of  investigations involving crimes against children: from stranger  abduction to serial homicide to ritualized sexual abuse. Those who do  this kind of work are required to plumb the depths of human depravity,  to see things no one should ever have to see - and once seen can never  forget. There is no more important - or more brutal - job in law  enforcement, and few have been more successful than Rinek at solving  these sort of cases.
Most famously, Rinek got Cary Stayner to  confess to all four of the killings known as the Yosemite Park Murders,  an accomplishment made more extraordinary by the fact that the FBI  nearly pinned the crimes on the wrong suspects. Rinek's recounting of  the confession and what he learned about Stayner provides perhaps the  most revelatory look ever inside the psyche of a serial killer and a  privileged glimpse into the art of interrogation.
In the Name of the Children  takes readers into the trenches of real-time investigations where every  second counts and any wrong decision or overlooked fact can have tragic  repercussions. Rinek offers an insider's perspective of the actual case  agents and street detectives who are the boots on the ground in this  war at home. By placing us inside the heart and mind of a rigorously  honest and remarkably self-reflective investigator, we will see with our  own eyes what it takes-and what it costs - to try to keep our children  safe and to bring to justice those who prey on society's most vulnerable  victims.
With each chapter dedicated to a real case he worked, In the Name of the Children  also explores the evolution of Rinek as a Special Agent - whose  unorthodox, empathy-based approach to interviewing suspects made him  extraordinarily successful in obtaining confessions - and the toll it took  to have such intimate contact with child molesters and murderers.  Beyond exploring the devastating impact of these unthinkable crimes on  the victims and their families, this book offers an unprecedented look  at how investigators and their loved ones cope while living in the  spectre of so much suffering.


