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Last Dance, Last Chance (Mass Market Paperback)

by Ann Rule (Author) "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..." (more)

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Mass Market Paperback: 480 pages
Publisher: Pocket; 1st thus edition (Dec 30 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 067102535X
ISBN-13: 978-0671025359
Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.4 x 3 cm
Shipping Weight: 250 g

Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (33 customer reviews)

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"America's best true-crime writer" (Kirkus Reviews), Ann Rule presents an all-new collection of crime stories drawn from her private files -- and featuring the riveting case of a fraudulent doctor whose lifelong deceptions had deadly consequences.

LAST DANCE LAST CHANCE

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, this worldwide headline-making case will have you turning pages in disbelief that a trusted medical professional could sink to the depths of greed, manipulation, and self-aggrandizement where even slow, deliberate murder is not seen for what it truly is: pure evil.

About the Author

Ann Rule is a former Seattle policewoman and the author of nineteen New York Times bestsellers, including seven previous Crime Files volumes: Empty Promises, A Rage to Kill, In the Name of Love, A Fever in the Heart, You Belong to Me, A Rose for Her Grave, and The End of the Dream. She is also the author of Every Breath You Take, the only true-crime book written at the request of the murder victim -- a woman ensnared by the violent obsessions of her millionaire ex-husband; ...And Never Let Her Go, the nationally renowned case of deadly seducer Thomas Capano, which was made into a CBS miniseries; and Bitter Harvest, which unravels the shattering case of Debora Green, a doctor and loving mother driven to lethal acts of vengeance. Her other titles include the bestsellers If You Really Loved Me, Everything She Ever Wanted, Small Sacrifices, Dead by Sunset, The Want-Ad Killer, The I-5 Killer, Lust Killer; and her classic The Stranger Beside Me, the unnerving chronicle of Rule's dawning horror as she realized her friend and coworker, Ted Bundy, was a serial killer. She has also written a #1 New York Times bestselling novel, Possession.

Ann Rule has testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee and regularly presents seminars to law enforcement agencies, including the FBI Academy, as well as district attorneys and victim support groups. She served on the U.S. Justice Department task force that set up VI-CAP (the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program now in place at FBI headquarters) to track and trap serial killers. She lives near Seattle. For more information, visit her Web site at www.annrules.com.

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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?, May 3 2004

By	"penelope4321" (USA) - See all my reviews

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.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Witness of the real story, Mar 2 2004

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I read this story, but more importantly I witnessed this story as it unfolded. As a friend of the family, I saw this devastating story firsthand. And while I think Ann Rule does a great job of telling "a story", a story is what it is. It is based on facts, but yet she only tells it from one point of view, Debbie Pignataro's. (Nevermind that Debbie was gratuitously compensated for these efforts.) She never seems to mention the equally physchotic and unstable nature of Debbie herself, the multiple times she attempted to commit sucide nor the fact that Anthony was never proven to have poisoned her (and while nobody but them knows the truth, it is possible that she again was trying to end her own life). There was no trial and his guilt was put forth as a result of an unusual deal given by the DA which evolved out of strange circumstances. If there was clear and convincing evidence, surely the DA would have went forth with the grandour of a trial and all the acclaims that would have followed. Nor does Ann mention the numerous times in which Debbie has spoken to Anthony since he has been in jail or the love that she still professes for him.
Buffalo is a small town and its circles of what Ann Rice calls "affluent" people are even smaller, a story like this is a new channels dream and a police departments's opportunity to shine. The truth is that there are doctors like Anthony everywhere, inadequately trained in a field, overly confident and unmonitored, even as a friend of the family, I will not disagree with those accusations. In a big city a story like this may have made the middle page of a local paper or a six second slot on the evening news, but here it was like a soap opera. And the drama countinues...
Read the book, enjoy the story, but remember that it is a story, written and crafted to entice the readers... it is not a equally sided factual account of what happened; for many of those answers we will never know. Anthony certainly has his faults and I can understand from reading this book, where they are maginifed, how readers may hate him... just remember "it takes one to know one" and Debbie is not who the book portrays her to be either.
In the end just remember these are real people with real families and while everyone is entitled to their opinions, just imagine if it had happened to your brother and his wife or even better your son/daughter and his/her family. Debbie and Anthony ruined their own lifes and that they were entitled to do, but just don't forget all the lives that were ruined on the sidelines... their two amazing kids, their parents and their friends and families. These people should never be critisized for their involvement because all they did was love and support them, which is what we would all hope for if ever we found ourselves in trouble.

If you are looking for a one-sided story, this book is for you. If you are looking for a truthful story that depicts a situation accurately keeping looking. If you are looking for a book to entertain you and you like "trash" reading, this may be for you!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Pignataro=Death!!!!!!, Dec 21 2003

By	Edward Saint-Ivan author of The Black Knights God (Tampa, Fl. USA) - See all my reviews

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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