Book description
Cartoonist. Not detective. But saw the letters first. Morning mailroom at Chronicle. Police notes. Cryptograms. Real ink on real paper. Not pixels. Not screens. His hands knew that paper. His eyes knew the slant of that handwriting. Now he tells you. His voice. Not some actor. The man who lived it. Who drew the cartoons while the city bled.
Zodiac. Not a name. A signature. A taunt. 37 dead. Maybe more. Notes cut deeper than ink. Police stumbles. Public panic. The city holds its breath. Graysmith was there. Saw the fear in the newsroom. Smelled the coffee. Heard the panic in the phones. He wasn't chasing ghosts. He was drawing the world while ghosts walked it.
This audiobook? It's the sound of history breathing. His voice. Calm. Unhurried. Like he's just recounting the weather. But the weight? It's there. In the pauses. In the way he says "San Francisco" like it's a different country now. The city he knew. The city the killer knew. The city that never slept. Not really.
He doesn't just tell the story. He makes you feel the tension. The morning the letters arrived. The dread when the cryptograms were found. The slow dread of a case going cold. He was the cartoonist who drew the killer's threats. Not the detective who solved them. He saw the human cost. The families. The police. The city itself. Trapped in a game it couldn't win.
The book claims to be the first complete account. Maybe. But the real power here is the voice. The man who was there. Not a historian. Not a fan. The guy who saw the letters, knew the names of the victims, felt the city's fear. He narrates his own work. That's rare. That's important. You hear the weight of it. The years. The frustration. The quiet hope that maybe, just maybe, it's not all lost.
The killer's still out there. Graysmith says it. Not as a headline. As a fact. A quiet, terrible truth. The audiobook doesn't scream it. It just sits with you. Like the unsolved case. Like the city that never forgot. You hear the San Francisco streets. You hear the silence after the last note. You hear the question hanging. Still out there? The way he says it. Not a shout. A whisper. Right in your ear. And you don't know if it's a question or a warning. The city holds its breath. Again.
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Rooster
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Playing a wide variety of audio formats
Works on all devices with iOS 13 and newer
Huge amount of features for a small price
Frequent updates to add new features and improve existing ones
Advanced playback controls
Live sound processing
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice and noise reduction
Translated into more than 20 languages
If you love listening to fiction audiobooks, ListenBook has features to make the process easier.
Edit book data: title, author, cover
Use equalizer to make the sound comfortable for you
Adjust the playback speed
Enjoy dark and light app themes
Supported formats: MP3, M4B, AWB, FLAC, OGG audio files and many more (must be DRM free)
Auto-Bookmarks make it easy to find your place
AirPlay support allows redirection of audio output.
VoiceOver support
Dark mode for night owls
Convenient bookmarking system helps you mark the most important places.
Unlimited bookmarks for each audiobook
Put your own cover on the wager
Share your audiobook with friends
Lock-screen control
Customise app with extensive options
Sleep timer with shake to reset, set custom notification sounds, and a few unique options
Auto rewind depending on paused time, customize rewind times to your liking
Removing background noise from recordings made in classrooms and meetings
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice for a better listening experience