Exposed: The Harrowing Story of A Mother's Undercover Work With The FBI to Save Children From Internet Sex Predators

by R. Stephanie Good

Think your child is safe surfing the Web? Think again, says R. Stephanie Good in this chilling expose and personal memoir about her efforts with the FBI to bust child sex predators. Posing as a young girl, Stephanie has helped the federal government catch everyone from common perverts to Fortune 1000 executives, even an executive from a children's cable television channel. Stephanie reveals the near-tragic personal story that compelled her into this harrowing career and takes readers on the hunt.

Genres: Nonfiction, Crime, Technology, Psychology, True Crime

246 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 2007

Reviews

[Sharon Orlopp · Rating 4 out of 5]

Disturbing, factual book about sex predators on the Internet who focus on children.

[Tiana Lao · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book really caught my attention at first because I thought it would really give some good insight of the topic, but the further I got into reading, it kept repeating the same thing over and over. The author kept repeating the same questions that she would ask herself in that situation instead of giving detail about internet sex predators. She kept talking about similar questions repeatedly and mentioning things about herself that have nothing to do with the topic for the next 3 or 4 pages of a chapter. I understand when she included her own experiences but there was unnecessary information to maybe prolong the book?

[Autumn · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is very informative. I didn't know what to expect when I picked this book up, but I wasn't disappointed. I think every parent should read this book to inform themselves on how sexual predators work. Thank God for people like Stephanie.

[Shayla Campbell · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good book. Good info. Interesting stories. Gets a little repetitive.

[Jeannie · Rating 2 out of 5]

The work this author does is very commendable but reading about it.... it got repetitive very quickly. The book is full of the chats she had with these men online while posing as a 13 yr old and basically they all followed the same pattern. I was disappointed, I was hoping to read more about the problem itself (which she does touch on, but only briefly). As for the word "Harrowing" in the title of the book, I never found it. The closet she came to most of these men was giving her testimony in court. Not sure if "harrowing" is the correct word for that. She also felt the need to defend herself throughout the book, the reasons she does this, where she went to college, her degrees, I didn't feel that was pertinent. Her true reason was her son had been approached by a pedophile and she wanted to protect other children. Good enough reason right there.

[Gaile · Rating 3 out of 5]

Posing as a teen girl on the internet, the author describes how she caught
and convicted child pedophiles. I was very interested until about the middle of
the book and then found myself getting bored. I never go in chat rooms as they bore me.
I don't really understand the attraction for teens either but it really is dangerous, not
just for teen girls but also for teen boys.

[Ann · Rating 2 out of 5]

I bought this book, because I thought I would learn about Internet predators. Instead, the book is a very personal account of Good's work to expose predators, but lacks any connection to the larger context of the problem or analysis.

[sanaz]

that must be a wonder full book. some months before, I saw a movie on this subject. that was amazing in one hand and unbelievable in other hand...how they could do such...!!!