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Perfect Victim

Authors: Christine Mcguire, Carla Norton
Publisher: True Crime
Category: Book

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

10 reviews
Sales Rank: 33711

Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 416
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.2 x 1.1

ISBN: 0352325615
Dewey Decimal Number: 364
EAN: 9780352325617
ASIN: 0352325615

Publication Date: January 17, 1991
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Condition: A well used copy. Some discolouration to edges, cover worn but majority of inside clean and all tight.

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4 out of 5 stars

Perfect victim April 9, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful

An absolute must for readers of true crime.
Cameron Hooker was, and no doubt still is a very evil and conniving man. In fact he doesn't even deserve to be called a man.
What he did to poor Colleen Stan is horrendous. Is it any wonder that eventually after years of being kept his captive, she thought that she was falling in love with this man. He knew exactly what he was doing to this poor 17 year old girl.
For 7 years, after abducting Colleen along with his wife Janice; and keeping this girl either locked down in the cellar with a 'head box' on; hung by the ceiling by her wrists bound in chains; then evenually given a home in a box that she had no room whatsoever to manover in, under the marital bed!
Cameron Hooker tortured this girl both phsically and mentally -even forcing her to sign a slavery contract!!
So then when he allowed her a little leeway; i.e- Didn't keep her hanging by the wrists for so long, or spared her from the body stretching 'instrument' he had devised, Colleen mistook this for kindness and thanked him for that.
The only way to truely know about this story is to read the book.
I was absolutely gripped by it, and did not put it down from the moment that I picked it up. which was on an outbound flight for a one week holiday to Cyprus.
I didn't do very much sightseeing though. I was more than happy to lie on the beach with this book.
Very well written, Obviously a lot of research has gone into this book. Very greatly recommended.
One of the top books I have ever read on my favourite subject, True Crime.

5 out of 5 stars

Terrifyingly compelling January 30, 2002
7 out of 9 found this review helpful

A story I couldn't put down. Full of the worst and the greatest traits of human nature. A story of survival, torture and the most terrible deprivation. You wonder how you would cope. You look at the world with different eyes after - is she in the same situation as Colleen Stan or is he another Mr Hooker? Would you recognise someone with such evil in them if they were your neighbour, father, brother, friend, work colleague. You think there is nothing worse that can happen to you than rape and murder and then you read this book.

5 out of 5 stars

Utterley fascinating, difficult to put down. August 17, 2001
5 out of 7 found this review helpful

What this women went through is frightening and as a male I almost began to feel guilty. I read this book sometime ago but some of the images portrayed by the writer are still with me today. This book is a must for anyone interested in true crime and would make my "true crime top tem"

5 out of 5 stars

one of the most disturbing books i have ever read. September 20, 2000
1 out of 3 found this review helpful

This is an amazing story of how one young woman deals with captivity her captors and daily sexual abuse by her captors.It shows her strenght and i have nothing but complete admiration for her for getting through her ordeal.This book shows the dark side of america and how nothing is what it seems.

5 out of 5 stars

absolutely gripping July 28, 2000
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

I could not believe what this young woman endured and somehow survived.I was in shock at the torture she suffered at the hands of Hooker.I also found it scary that by the end of her ordeal she had been brainwashed to such an extent that that she felt love and hate for her captor;she needed him;was dependant on him,but hated him. a brilliant read.