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Chasing Evil: Shocking Crimes, Supernatural Forces, and an FBI Agent's Search for Hope and Justice

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2025

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Essay Topics

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Analyze how the narrative’s structure, which consists principally of Robert Hilland’s first-person investigation but also includes first- and third-person sections from John Edward’s point of view, serves the book’s exploration of logic versus intuition and skepticism versus belief.

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How does the evolution of Hilland and Edward’s working relationship—from skeptical testing to implicit trust—illustrate the memoir’s argument for a collaborative methodology that combines intuition with evidence?

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Analyze the literary techniques used to construct John Smith’s character as a “chameleon” whose malevolence is hidden behind a controlled mask.

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