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"A scruffy masterpiece of criminology. It seems to me that either Kobek's painstaking deductions are correct, or we must urgently revise the laws of probability." -Alan Moore, author of From Hell

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This is not the Zodiac speaking. The one thing that I ask of you is this, please read this book. It is called How to Find Zodiac. Being that this book is about the Zodiac, it offers a new suspect. The theory is probably correct. At the moment the theory is unproven. But the idea is a bomb waiting to go massive. Can you see the flaws in the hunting method or will you just agree and say case closed. Either way one thing is true. Zodiac can never look and seem the same after you read this book. It was written by Jarett Kobek.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ We Heard You Like Books (February 18, 2022)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 306 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1737842807
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1737842804
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.69 x 9 inches
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Jarett Kobek is a Turkish-American writer living in California. His novel I HATE THE INTERNET was an international bestseller, translated into nine languages, and published in twelve countries.

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Paul Doerr is Zodiac
If you have actually read every single book about Zodiac....this is for you. Finally....finally someone that truly seems like a solid suspect. Connection to "Renaissance Fair" type groups of role players, hence the " Medieval Hood" Zodiac wore at Lake Berryessa. Author tracks down a man who wrote to editors his entire life with similar style of writing. Also wrote for many zines over course of 40 years. Suspect had the same suspected make /model of car sitting rotting away in his drive way for decades. Suspect =Minuteman who was on FBI watchlist. Minute man symbol is the cross hairs symbol. On and On and On
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Dirk G.
5.0 out of 5 stars Great history lesson on a specific subculture
Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2022
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The conclusions the author draws are extremely plausible--especially by the end. Moreover, this is a great deep dive on an obscure yet influential subculture, that existed in a specific American place and time. Without this book, knowledge of it may have faded entirely. Kobek's talent as a researcher is very impressive. His ability too, to put that knowledge in context is what makes for some of the revelations herein. This millennial breezed through it in days.
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N. Martin
5.0 out of 5 stars Paul Doerr is the Zodiac
Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2022
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Kobek figured out that Paul Doerr was the Zodiac with literary analysis. He narrowed down the man’s geography and interests, then presents a compelling timeline of his activities. These two books about the Zodiac are some great true crime writing for fans of Tom O’Neil’s CHAOS and Dave McGowan’s Programmed to Kill.
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Gorey T. Haslon
5.0 out of 5 stars "Fanzines Vallejo"
Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2022
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What does it mean to have ready access to limitless information? Forget a song title so you google the lyrics. Wonder how best to make sourdough? There’s 10,000 blogs for that. What ever happened to the Syrian Civil war? The internet will know!

Is that knowledge? I won’t say wisdom. What does it mean? It means depression & obsession. Delirium. We use deranging media to tell ourselves deranging stories. Deranging stories that spread like contagion.

In homuncular form, this was true in 1970. The Zodiac killings, unsolved for the last half-century, have depressed, obsessed, deluded and deranged many people. We arrived at one story. It wasn’t the right one.

How to Find Zodiac razes that story to its foundations. The first brick laid in the new story, maybe the right one at last, was a google search made by the author in his kitchen. Fanzines Vallejo. What follows is the ultimate internet rabbit hole, including microfiche from Australia, google street view in 2007, and translations from Elvish. The Zodiac is much stranger than you’ve been led to believe.

Where H2FZ is different from other books on Zodiac is in its approach: this book does not have a suspect or theory it wishes to foist upon you, reader. Rather, it begins from the deceptively innocent idea that it is possible to trace someone through their writing, which leads to a suspect whom the author attempts to disqualify as Zodiac--and is unable to do so. This is much, much more unsettling.

As with Motor Spirit, the Long Hunt for Zodiac (the first half of this diptych) you have never read anything like this. No one has. It will forever change how you think about much more than the Zodiac killings.
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chris
4.0 out of 5 stars Intriguing
Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2022
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Unlike other suspects from other books and theories, Kobek's left a long and deep trail of weird writings and want ads, many of which can be credibly linked to Zodiac's writings and knowledge base. Kobek's book is a textual analysis and cultural history of Paul Doerr's writings in comparison to Zodiac's.

There are interesting parallels and echoes. For example, Zodiac refers to buttons in one of his communications. I did not know about the cultural status and use of buttons in the 1960s and 1970s, particularly among attendees of sci fi and renaissance fair-type events. With or without the Zodiac connection, this part of the book was eye opening, like so many others. Even if Kobek is wrong, his book still stands as a compelling history of 1960s/1970s sci-fi fanzine culture as told through the writings of a very unlikeable man. I was also fascinated by Kobek's discussion of Z's gunsight logo in relation to his suspect's verifiable association with The Minutemen, who used that logo in their fliers.

Unlike other books on this topic, Kobek's is full of new content, textual evidence, and informed speculation. There's a lot to sift through and think about. Kobek made me think in a way that no other Zodiac book has. What is the difference between calling the killer "Zodiac" or "The Zodiac"? What kind of participatory publishing was most like the internet before the internet existed? (60s and 70s Fanzine culture.) What did it mean to be a sci-fi fan over half a century ago? Jeez, this book delivers so much stuff that goes beyond true crime.

Then there's the issue of Kobek's style, which reminds me a little of the playful, literary nonfiction novels of Javier Cercas (Soldiers of Salamis, Lord of all the Dead), and the recreated correspondence of the Bantock's Griffin and Sabine picture books from the 1990s. I don't like Danielewski's House of Leaves but that experimental novel is about being sucked into a space of creepy infinity, which is not dissimilar to the experience of trying to figure out the Zodiac mystery.
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THOMAS
5.0 out of 5 stars Paul Doerr is Zodiac
Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2022
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If you have actually read every single book about Zodiac....this is for you. Finally....finally someone that truly seems like a solid suspect. Connection to "Renaissance Fair" type groups of role players, hence the " Medieval Hood" Zodiac wore at Lake Berryessa. Author tracks down a man who wrote to editors his entire life with similar style of writing. Also wrote for many zines over course of 40 years. Suspect had the same suspected make /model of car sitting rotting away in his drive way for decades. Suspect =Minuteman who was on FBI watchlist. Minute man symbol is the cross hairs symbol. On and On and On
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If you have actually read every single book about Zodiac....this is for you. Finally....finally someone that truly seems like a solid suspect. Connection to "Renaissance Fair" type groups of role players, hence the " Medieval Hood" Zodiac wore at Lake Berryessa. Author tracks down a man who wrote to editors his entire life with similar style of writing. Also wrote for many zines over course of 40 years. Suspect had the same suspected make /model of car sitting rotting away in his drive way for decades. Suspect =Minuteman who was on FBI watchlist. Minute man symbol is the cross hairs symbol. On and On and On
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Jerrod
1.0 out of 5 stars Hot garbage
Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2022
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Everything that made this author’s first Zodiac book good was removed for this sequel. The suspect is intriguing, but the way the author goes about presenting his case sounds like confirmation bias to the highest degree. Plus, he chose to write this in the third person, which I found so incredibly annoying and very difficult to read, especially having started this immediately upon finishing the far superior Motor Spirit. What a jolt of bad writing. I returned it.
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momms
3.0 out of 5 stars Author writes in the third person ugh.
Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2024
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Just started the book and I’m sure I’ll like the information it holds, but I find the author referring to himself in the third person very annoying. Book needs a really good editor, but when you self publish this is the result. Too bad, because the information within is really intriguing.
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TheGuy12
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing
Reviewed in Canada on January 4, 2024
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Incredible writer lays out his theory and it's the most believable one I've come across.
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Sideman
4.0 out of 5 stars A good book for speculative Zodiac junkies
Reviewed in Mexico on February 9, 2023
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This is a good book, but it won't be everyone's cup of tea. If you are a Zodiac junkie who doesn't mind (or even enjoys) speculative thought, then you're in for a treat.
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Bob
5.0 out of 5 stars The best suspect yet?
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 4, 2024
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Just a quick review. This is a great book with fantastic research into the subculture of the zodiac era. Suspect Paul Doerr contributed, read and even published his own fanzines on numerous topics and the coincidences with the Zodiac are startling.
The counter culture which zodiac seemed immersed in often revolves around obscure and rare fanzines, and Paul Doerr had certainly read the same material as the zodiac. He even appears to confess to murder in a letter to one.
The coincidences pile up on top each other, and Paul Doerr certainly warrants further research.
A great book and possibly a break through in the case.
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Phil Rosenzweig
5.0 out of 5 stars Extraordinary – brilliant, unconventional, original, edgy
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 8, 2022
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Extraordinary – brilliant, unconventional, original, edgy.

Somewhere between Hunter S. Thompson -- perceptive, irreverent, fresh -- and William Vollman -- ambitious, sweeping, edgy.

I read How to Find Zodiac, then Motor Spirit. Readers not familiar with the case might read Motor Spirit first.

First, a bit of context. I’m a Bay Area native, and was 14 years old when Zodiac was in the headlines in 1969. I remember it all as it happened -- the taunting letters to the Chronicle and Examiner, the ciphers, and more. I’m curious about the case but not more. I had never read any of many books about Zodiac, nor visited a website or listened to a podcast, much less spent and time trying to investigate the case. What interests me is how people think about the case -- wrongly or rightly.

The evidence has been compiled and scoured closely for decades, with no progress or solution. We might imagine that we’ve been looking in the wrong place.

Enter Kobek, who looks at things very differently. Zodiac was not some hippie or believer in the occult, but wanted to appear like one, to blend in with the counter-culture of the times. He’s someone who wanted attention. He’s not a deranged killer who can’t control himself. After four attacks he stopped killing, and the letters stopped a couple of years later.

So Kobek uses a bit of lateral thinking. Someone who writes to letters to editors may have done so at other times. Someone who makes many popular culture references may have written for the many fanzines of the era – now searchable on-line or in libraries. Someone who wore an executioner hood on one occasion might have found use for it elsewhere. And so on.

Quickly there’s a hit: Paul Doerr, who lived in the Vallejo–Fairfield area, worked at the Mare Island Navy base. With a name in hand, Kobek searches for Doerr and find many, many links to Zodiac. Descriptions of bomb making, with similar phrasing and an identical omission. Mention of hand stamping letters. Similarities in penmanship. Participation in “creative anachronisms,” one that took place the same day as the murder with the hood. Skill in ciphers and the same spellings – cipher and cypher. And much more. Have a look.

Each time Kobek says he’s looking to see if he can exclude Doerr, but time after time, he’s unable to do so. Absence of proof is not proof of absence, but still ...

Impressed by the many plausible connections, most never made before, I reached out to the author of a well-received set of books about Zodiac, and to a website dedicated to the case. What do you make of Kobek’s book, and what about Paul Doerr as a suspect?

I get replies from both within 24 hours, both saying the same thing: 1) I’m aware of the book but have not read it; 2) it’s probably another example of the confirmation bias – people identify a suspect and then find reasons to confirm that supposition.

Maybe they’ve been so inundated with "solutions" for so many years that they can’t be bothered to read one more. Maybe.

My guess is that something else is at work.

First, if the case is solved, what happens to our little industry? Poof. There may be a vested interest in a rejecting solution, which we might call a disconfirmation bias. (As the saying goes, “If you shoot the fox, what is left to hunt?”) Second, how did Kobek find the solution and not me? A bit embarrassing, perhaps, for folks who have dedicated themselves to the case.

Has Kobek found Zodiac? Definitive proof might come be a fingerprint match. Can one be found from his employment files with the Navy, or lifted from a possession?

Until then, this is the most original, creative, provocative, and insightful treatment of a case that has baffled many for 50 years. And, I would guess, very likely correct.
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