- Paperback: 1 pages
- Publisher: Time Warner (Feb 5 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0751531634
- ISBN-13: 978-0751531633
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.8 x 3.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 299 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,159,107 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Master of the true-crime genre CHICAGO TRIBUNE No writer in America has ever probed the dark heart of a killer so deeply Edna Buchanan Devastatingly accurate insight. NEW YORK TIMES
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Dr Anthony Pignataro was a cosmetic surgeon and a famed medical researcher whose flashy red Lamborghini and flamboyant lifestyle in western New York state suggested a highly successful career. But appearances, as this shocking insider account of Pignataro's tailspin from physician to prisoner proves, can be deceiving - and, for the doctor's wife, very nearly deadly. No one was safe if they got in his way. With scalpel, drugs and arsenic, he betrayed every oath a physician makes - until his own schemes backfired. Now the motivations of the classic sociopath are plumbed with chilling accuracy by Ann Rule, along with other shocking true cases, where even slow, deliberate murder is not seen for what it truly is: pure evil.
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As I begin my twenty-first book and look back over three decades of writing about true-crime cases, I have come to a place where I am no longer surprised by the unusual requests I receive in phone calls, letters, and e-mails. Read the first page
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Debbie a Victim?,
By "penelope4321" (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Last Dance, Last Chance (Mass Market Paperback)
Well written and interesting...but the main "victim" Debbie, comes off more like an accomplice, than the Angel that Ms. Rule intended for her to appear like. So much rang false for me.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Pignataro=Death!!!!!!,
By Edward Saint-Ivan author of The Black Knights God (Tampa, Fl. USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Last Dance, Last Chance (Mass Market Paperback)
Pignataro is one of the most evil, twisted, souls ever to emerge from the pits of hell!I was blown away by Ann Rule's description of Pignataro's relentless pursuit of a medical education, total disregard for his patients, and deep desire to exact revenge against his enemies. As the son of a retired medical school Dean, I met my share of Pignataros. What drives theese people to offshore medical schools, endless years of post-graduate training, and usually an unfulfilling career is beyond me! The book does have one flaw. Ann Rule doesn't express outrage that Pignataro was prosecuted for criminal nigligence. If every cosmetic surgeon had to hire an anesthesiologist to put patients asleep, cosmetic surgery would be unaffordable. Clearly, Pignataro should have had a working EKG and shock machine in case of an emergency and Sarah Smith was overmedicated but I don't understand how that creates the conditions for a criminal nigligence case.
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More Than Just A Quack-This Man Was a Killer!,
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This review is from: Last Dance, Last Chance (Mass Market Paperback)
When I read this book, I will have to say that it scared me a little that a so-called doctor would be that incompetent! Dr. Anthony Pignataro was dangerous, and if you were to walk through his door, watch out! With trying to perform cosmetic surgery with non-sterile tools, and arsenic in his other hand, the spiritof this story was pure evil. His poor wife Debbie suffered terribly at his hands not only in a medical way, but with his betrayals to her many many times as well. A worthwhile read!
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