### From the Back Cover **BENEATH ONE BRILLIANT DOCTOR'S KINDLY BEDSIDE MANNER…** Dr. John Kappler was a well-respected physician in dozens of California hospitals, yet none of his patients ever imagined that his real profession was murder… **LURKED AN INSATIABLE KILLER…** The horror began the day he secretly attempted to kill three patients--including a pregnant woman who suffered permanent brain damage at his evil hands. Then, in a driving rampage, Kappler rammed another car, stole it, and used it as a lethal weapon. Yet, incredibly, his fellow doctors bailed him out of jail, and he was soon back on the job. **WHO LURED HIS PATIENTS INTO A VICIOUS CIRCLE OF DEATH…** Desperate to satisfy his lust for killing, Kappler cruelly plunged a patient into cardiac arrest. Next, he pulled the plug on a defenseless man unconscious in a hospital bed. Still, no one stopped him. Finally, he exploded in a terrifying rage of violence and murder. Pressing the accelerator of his car to the floor, he cut down a promising young doctor and seconds later maimed a toddler's mom for life. Author Keith Ablow, a close friend of the murdered physician, paints a chilling portrait of a twisted modern-day Jekyll and Hyde. **"Superb investigative reporting."--Michael Palmer** ** ** **"Fascinating and evocative."** **--Carol C. Nadelson, M.D., former president of the American Psychiatric Association** ** ** ### About the Author **KEITH ABLOW, M.D.,** is America's most well-known forensic psychiatrist and consults on Court TV. A graduate of Brown University and the Johns Hopkins Medical School, he has been retained to testify in some of the nation's most highly publicized murder cases. He has been a guest not only on Court TV but on *Today*, *Larry Elder*, CNN, *Charlie Rose*, *Maury*, *Montel*, *Charles Grodin*, MSNBC, Fox News, and many others. Visit his Web site at www.keithablow.com and www.insidethemindof.com.

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