The Ultimate Evil

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The Barnes & Noble Review
On August 10, 1977, the NYPD arrested David Berkowitz for the "Son of Sam" murders that had terrorized New York City for more than 13 months. Berkowitz confessed to being a lone murderer — one who had carried out eight senseless shooting with a .44 caliber Bulldog revolver. The case was officially closed. Journalist Maury Terry was suspicious of Berkowitz's confession, convinced as he gathered corroborating evidence throughout the years, that Berkowitz did not act alone. In this investigative story, first published in 1987, Terry details the chilling events, proving that Berkowitz was an affiliate of — and triggerman for — a Satanic cult known as the Process Church of the Final Judgment, a far-reaching organization that is connected to other ritual slayings across the country. Updated wtih Berkowitz's recent confirmations from his prison cell, Terry untangles the web of information and shocking extent of the Process Church's activities. Includes black-and-white photographs.

Chattanooga News--Free Press

A terrifying, convincing account...Not recommended for bedtime reading or the easily frightened because in not knowing what exists on the dark side we all sleep a little easier.

Flint Journal

One of the best true crime books of the year...Like the best mystery and horror fiction, this is the kind of book you won't put down after you start...Well-crafted, compelling, with bombshells aplenty.

Neshoba Democrat

A chilling revelation. If you seriously doubt that anything really evil could exist beneath this nation's solid front of patriotism, religion, and "have a good day" brotherhood, this book will shake your conviction to the core.

Newsday

Terry's book offers answers where there had been none before...

Penthouse Magazine

Sensational.

South Bend Tribune

Shocking, fascinating.

Steve Dunleavy

Maury Terry...produced a series of masterful journalistic efforts. With The Ultimate Evil, Maury has topped himself.
— New York Post

Publishers Weekly

Describing the extent of satanic worship in the U.S. as a ``truth almost too frightening to comtemplate,'' freelance reporter Terry exposes an alleged national network of killer cults such as the one he claims spawned the Son of Sam murders. In this suspenseful, convoluted account of his investigations, including an interrogation of David Berkowitz, he argues that contrary to the police version of a sexual psychopath acting alone, the so-called Son of Sam obeyed orders of a satanic conspiracy, an off-shoot of the British Process cult associated with Scientology and the Manson ``family'' murders. Letters to the author from Berkowitz and revelations the killer made to fellow prisoners support many of Terry's theories that link New York occult crimes to others carried out in North Dakota and California by well-financed covens often involved in drugs, porn and illegal weapons. The author attributes several recent ritualistic deaths in the New York area to the satanic subculture that, he believes, flourishes from coast to coast. Photos not seen by PW. (June 19)

Library Journal

On the basis of a ten-year investigation, journalist Terry argues that convicted ``Son of Sam'' killer David Berkowitz did not act alone, but rather was part of a satanic cult conspiracy. He identifies Charles Manson as a member of a cult and reviews other murders allegedly committed by devil-worshipping groups. As with many ``conspiracy theory'' books, this one is filled with hearsay and dubious conclusions presented as certainties. Berkowitz is notoriously unreliable and since no ``conspirator'' has been arrested, fictitious names and anonymous sources abound. Still, much of this speculation is fascinating and some of it may be valid. For general collections. Gregor A. Preston, Univ. of California Lib., Davis