Bracing ... Colloff’s rendering of Paul Skalnik, a career criminal and the other man at the center of the book, is chilling ... Colloff...has written a propulsive narrative full of memorable details.
One of the fascinations here is Skalnik’s psychic makeup ... Lacking actual cooperation, Colloff instead deploys her prodigious investigative reporting skills ... Its unusual villain makes Catch the Devil an engrossing read; the public policy implications make it important.
An impressive portrait ... Both a chilling profile of an evildoer and a glimpse into a fractured justice system, this enlightens and entertains in equal measure.
