Long Haul

Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

Frank Figliuzzi

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HarperCollins
05 June 2024

True crime; Police & security services; Espionage & secret services

"""A true-crime masterpiece."" —Don Winslow, #1 bestselling author of The Force, The Cartel, and City on Fire

From the FBI’s former assistant director, a shocking journey to the dark side of America’s highways, revealing the FBI Highway Serial Killings Initiative’s hunt for the long-haul truckers behind an astonishing 850 murders–and counting.

In 2004, the FBI was tipped off to a gruesome pattern of unsolved murders along American roadways. Today at least 850 homicides have been linked to a solitary breed of predators: long-haul truck drivers. They have been given names like the “Truck Stop Killer,” who rigged a traveling torture chamber in the rear of his truck and is suspected to have killed fifty women, and “The Interstate Strangler,” who once answered a phone call from his mother while killing one of his dozen victims. The crisis was such that the FBI opened a special unit, the Highway Serial Killings Initiative. In many cases, the victims—often at-risk women—are picked up at truck stops in one jurisdiction, sexually assaulted and murdered in another, and dumped along a highway in a third place. The transient nature of the offenders and multiple jurisdictions involved make these cases incredibly difficult to solve.

Based on his own on-the-ground research and drawing on his twenty-five-year career as an FBI special agent, Frank Figliuzzi investigates the most terrifying cases. He also rides in a big-rig with a long-haul trucker for thousands of miles, gaining an intimate understanding of the life and habits of drivers and their roadside culture. And he interviews the courageous trafficked victims of these crimes, and their inspiring efforts to now help others avoid similar fates.

Long Haul is a gripping exploration of a violent, disordered world hiding in plain sight, and the heroes racing to end the horror. It will forever unsettle how you travel on the road."

By: Frank Figliuzzi
Imprint: HarperCollins
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 361g
ISBN: 9780063265158
ISBN 10: 006326515X
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 05 June 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Frank Figliuzzi was the assistant director for counterintelligence at the FBI, where he served 25 years as a special agent and directed all espionage investigations across the government. He is an MSNBC columnist and a national security contributor for NBC News and MSNBC. He is the author of the national bestseller The FBI Way: Inside the Bureau's Code of Excellence.

Reviews for Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

"""This is a must read for serious leaders at every level. Frank Figliuzzi served 25 years in the famed FBI rising to the highest levels of leadership. His assignments as chief counter-espionage officer for the Bureau, his street experience as a Special Agent confronting crime, corruption and police misconduct, and his perspective as an FBI policy maker offer us fresh insights into the links between preserving values, pursuing excellence, and defending anything worth keeping."" -- General Barry R. McCaffrey (U.S. Army Retired) ""Frank Figliuzzi is a patriot. He is an intelligent, straight-forward, and passionate voice for reason, loyalty, and what I have discovered are the simple but essential FBI values. In The FBI Way, through dramatic front-line stories and commentary, he demonstrates how to bring those values into our own lives."" -- Robert De Niro, Recipient of the Medal of Freedom ""Figliuzzi's war stories of hunting terrorists are spellbinding, but equally important is his playbook for how the FBI's methods for achieving excellence in performance can be duplicated by a wide variety of organizations. This should be required reading in business schools across America."" -- Andrea Mitchell, Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, NBC News ""Far-reaching, arguing that the world can benefit not from particular FBI skills but from the organization's principles of accuracy and accountability."" -- Devlin Barrett, Washington Post ""The FBI Way is a sterling achievement in narrative nonfiction, thrilling without being a thriller, and one of those books people will be referencing for decades to come as a definitive tome for the times in which we live."" -- Providence Journal ""An achievement in narrative nonfiction, a thrilling non-thriller."" -- Richmond Times-Dispatch"