I thought the book was good. There was a lot of facts in the books that I didn't know and I found it really interesting. The only problem I saw with the book was the fact that it seemed to gloss over some important things that would have been good to expand on, but I really enjoyed the book in general.

I received this book from NetGalley and the publisher, in return for an honest review. This review is based entirely on my own thoughts and feelings.

Overall Rating: 4*
Writing : 5*
Information : 5*
Uniqueness : 3*
Science: 3*
Pace: 4*

I went into this one knowing nothing about the subject or how it ended up. I was very surprised at how easy this was to read. The author wrote in a detailed, yet manageable way. Also it was pacey and in a chronological order that had me eating it up! I cant wait to watch a documentary on this now and see if I can learn even more!

It's clear that Wiehl has done an extensive amount of research and truly wants to tell a story about the law enforcement personnel behind the hunt for thr Unabomber.

I have always been fascinated with what makes something do and think and react the way they do. By none more than the infamous Unabomber. I am giving my age away but i fondly remember the bombings. Lis Wiehl dives into the hunt for the famous killer. A look behind the curtain.

I love a good true crime book, and this did not disappoint. It was a good complement to the true crime offerings available on streaming services at the moment and did not seem to be just a duplication.

If you've read or seen other works on this case, then this will be a great window into the full background of the case, not just what was dramatized or sensationalized to make a better story. Wiehl has a procedural, factual way of describing the crimes in horrific detail, as well as the years of investigative work by many, many people. It's such a long and complex case that this is perhaps not the best introduction into it if you haven't heard much about it before. I found myself having to look up details to remember who was who. But it's a great treatment for the true crime fans out there. Indeed, I wish Ms. Wiehl would take on the Teresa Halbach murder case and show what a stinking heap of nonsense Netflix distributed with its Making a Murderer series.

Thanks to the publishers and NetGalley for the opportunity to review a digital ARC in exchange for an unbiased review.

I could not get interested in this book, I tried to read it, but just couldn't finish it. So, I deleted it. I will not be reviewing this book for Amazon or Barnes and Noble.

He went on a 17-year terror spree that struck fear in the entire nation. His bombs killed 3 and injured 23 more. It took the work of hundreds to find and capture him.

While you likely know some of the stories, this is the inside scoop from the people that lead the investigation and brought him to justice. Take a look inside Hunting the Unabomber: The FBI, Ted Kaczynski, and the Capture of America’s Most Notorious Domestic Terrorist.

Hunting The Unabomber

There are TV movies and numerous documentaries about his actions but few are as detailed or accurate. As a New York Times bestselling author and former federal prosecutor, Lis Wiehl interviewed numerous members of the investigative team from the FBI ‘UNABOM’ taskforce, to tell the story from the folks who lived it.

Full of exclusive interviews with law enforcement, the inter-agency conflicts, and more, you really feel in the midst of the action. You gain a great understanding of the challenges faced not only in catching one of the most elusive domestic terrorists ever but in navigating the bureaucracy within government law enforcement.

While many stories focus solely on the law enforcement side, Hunting The Unabomber also tells the life story of Ted Kaczynski. His upbringing, and what may have lead him to go on a terror spree. There’s far more than just his ‘manifesto’.

Go On The Hunt

This is a gripping narrative that’s full of drama and intensity. Though we know how it ended, this detailed account will keep you turning pages and on-edge.

Grab a copy of Hunting the Unabomber: The FBI, Ted Kaczynski, and the Capture of America’s Most Notorious Domestic Terrorist from Amazon now, and go along with the investigators that put this killer away for 8 consecutive life sentences, without the possibility of parole.

This was a very interesting read- I was a kid when the Unabomber struck and never really knew all the details. This book was easy to read and understand and I enjoyed hearing the story unfold. Thank you for the ARC copy.

Interesting and intriguing look at the motivations of the The Unabomber. Factual and detailed, it can be a slow read at times but it is full of detailed information that will be fascinating to those interested in the case. I would recommend this book. Thank you to NetGalley for allowing me to review this book.

I remember the Unabomber but never knew all of the details. This book is well written with the events in chronological order and easy to follow. It was very interesting.
Many thanks to Nelson Books and to NetGalley for providing me with a galley in exchange for my honest opinion.

This was a pre release copy from NetGalley. This was a very good book! I immensely enjoyed this informative look at the investigation into the Unabomber. The author has done a great job weaving all of her interviews into a book that was tough to put down. I highly recommend this book.

I'm not sure what made me request this ARC, as while I knew of the Unibomber & the extended search to find out his identity, it really wasn't of great interest to me. I contemplated not reading it, but decided to give it a try and then decide whether to continue or not. I read the first couple pages, and I was hooked! The writing style is engaging and it is told in layman's terms and does not assume you know anything about what went on.

I would definitely recommend this book to everyone. It is very informative & insiteful and can be enjoyed by people with great Unabomber knowledge and also by novices, like myself!

Lis Wiehl gives us all the details from the Unabomber case in her book Hunting the Unabomber.- a deep dive of the case and Kaczynski's background.

Wiehl writes of Kaczynski's childhood - mostly his adolescence when his genius intellect set him apart from other kids his age. She discusses the question about the impact of his skipping grades in school and starting at Harvard at age 16. What happens to a person that becomes isolated from normal social groups? What lasting impact did the interrogation experiment that he was a part of at Harvard have on him? Why would someone hide in a primitive cabin on the edge of survival and plot ways to kill people?

Wiehl touches on all of the bombings and talks about the lack of a focused, coordinated task force and the handful of agents from multiple agencies who were determined to find and prosecute the bomber.

Only negative is the tendency to spend too many words listing a participant's credentials.
Overall, an interesting book and good choice for true crime buffs.

This was the best book I've ever read about the unabomber. The detail was superb and I read it in one or two sittings. I saw the TV movie and wondered how true it was. The complexity of the case was beyond what the movie showed, and the book brought this out very well. The amazing thing I found out was how many resources the various agencies put into the search. This was elucidated well, too. Highly recommended to all readers.

The Unabomber’s sole intent was to cause injury and death. That was part of what made him so difficult to profile and ultimately identity.”

Third-generation federal prosecutor and daughter of an FBI agent Lis Wiehl, along with Lisa Pulitzer, dives deep into America’s longest running FBI investigation in “Hunting the Unabomber.”

Wiehl takes an extremely thorough approach to reveal the case of the Unabomber — Ted Kaczynski — and his nearly two decade reign of terror, committing 16 bomb attacks that killed three and injured 23 people.

Relying heavily on details from FBI Agent Patrick Webb, she explains how the FBI took some seemingly random and unrelated bombings against universities, airlines and a computer store, and learned to work with other agencies — the ATF and U.S. Postal Service — to find the man who would be come known as the Unabomber.

The book discusses Kaczynski’s ability to leave no trace evidence in his bombs, severely frustrating the agents, while also revealing his past, from childhood into adulthood, attempting to humanize him a bit and delve into his psyche to learn why he committed these atrocious crimes.

Those who enjoy true crime will love this book, seeing revelations into how law enforcement works to solve crimes using good old brain power, but also how the change in technology over time helped. It also allows the reader to think about intent behind committing crimes.

Wiehl and Pulitzer do an incredible job of creating an accurate, non-fictionalized telling of the Unabomber case. There are a lot of facts, timelines and people involved, but overall they do a good job of repeatedly reminding the reader of who people are and when and how events unraveled.

Five stars out of five.

Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson, provided this complimentary copy through NetGalley for my honest, unbiased review.

Lis Wiehl has written a superb read with Hunting the Unabomber. Well worth the time and a true page turner!

If you have seen the various documentaries about the Unabomber, this book adds a perspective that is worthwhile: how the men and women of the FBI organized their efforts and what they tried to do to track him down. What is interesting and not covered very well in the splashy documentaries is how many things that the team tried ended in abject failure, all because the Unabomber was able to avoid detection by using common materials and by living off the land without leaving much of a footprint. In those movies, you don't realize how much of a team effort was required and how many people contributed to his discovery. I highly recommend this book.

I wanted to like this book. I enjoy true crime novels, and I thought it would be interesting to read this one, written by a former FBI agent. But the prose was so dry, and there were a lot of details that the author seemed to think you should already be familiar with. I knew very little about the case, and about the Unabomber. I still feel uninformed on the case because the different bombings were not presented in a linear manner. I may try another novel about the Unabomber, or I may take a break from nonfiction.

Those of us who were adults in the late 20th century remember the Unabomber case. For years, starting at the end of the 1970s, improvised explosive devices targeted university professors, airlines and tech shops. Once commonalities established that these were the work of one attacker, the case became known as UNABOM, which stood for UNiversity and Airline BOMber. Of course, the perpetrator was called the Unabomber.

The case took many years, countless agent hours and vast sums of money to crack. Over time, the Unabomber finally gave the investigators, principally from the FBI, enough evidence to reveal his identity as Ted Kaczynski, a genius who had begun college at 16, progressed to a mathematics Ph.D., taught at Berkeley for a period, but then dropped out and lived in a 10x12 handmade cabin near Lincoln, Montana. Kaczynski was finally arrested in 1996, pled guilty to multiple charges, including murders, received eight life sentences, and is held at the Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado.

Lis Wiehl introduces us to the people on the UNABOM task force and painstakingly details their investigation. If you remember from the time, the big break in the case came when the Unabomber’s manifesto was published in the Washington Post. Normally the FBI wouldn’t agree to give a terrorist’s manifesto out for publication, but in this case there were two reasons for the go-ahead: he had promised to stop killing people if it was published, and it was thought that the more people saw the content of the work the more likely it would be that someone would recognize the writing and be able to identify the writer. And sure enough, it turned out that Ted Kaczynski’s brother recognized his older brother’s voice in the text and contacted the FBI.

Wiehl writes that she learned during her research that the recent Discovery channel series about the investigation was misleading, conflating several investigators and giving too much credit to one particular investigator. Maybe the screenwriters thought viewers would be too confused by a lot of characters. While there are a lot of them in the book, Wiehl’s writing is lucid and she makes it easy to follow the story.

One thing that particularly intrigued me was that quite a few members of the investigative team pooh-poohed the agents who believed that a copy of Kaczynski’s work, compared to the Unabomber manifesto, showed that the authors were one and the same. At the time, linguistic forensics was not as widely accepted as it is today. It was novel for the federal judge to grant a search warrant based on linguistic forensics, in the absence (at the time) of physical evidence connecting Kaczynski to the bombs.

Because Wiehl’s focus is the investigation, she doesn’t look deeply into Kaczynski’s manifesto, titled Industrial Society and Its Future, with its theme that “[t]he Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.” He particularly damns technology for damaging the environment and the human psyche, substituting artificial life for natural life. Many of his points particularly resonate today, and in prison he has the social life he never had before, corresponding with dozens of people regularly. Why a brilliant man thought that terrorism would help achieve his goals is a mystery—but then that’s true of all terrorism.

This is a well-written book that is a good choice for people who enjoy reading about the true crime investigative process.

I received a free publisher’s review copy via Netgalley.