Aftermath, Inc.: Cleaning Up After CSI Goes Home
by Gil Reavill
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Author: Gil ReavillEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-05-17
ISBN: 1592402968
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Gotham
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Book Review: Off-Track,
Summary: 3 Stars
I was sorely disappointed in this book. I didn't even want to finish it but did so because I felt obligated to finish what I started. I enjoy true crime books, especially ones dealing with the forensics of crime and death. I wrongly assumed Aftermath, Inc. would provide another vantage point of crime scenes and provide an informative and even educational insight into a world most would never see. Instead, the author, Gil Reavill, provided little detail of the scenes he worked and spent more time on personal stories and off on tangents that had nothing to do with cleaning death scenes, but more about him. While he portrays the company of Aftermath as professional, sensitive, and honest, I felt he did them a disservice because he spent half of the book on topics not related to the company or the services they provide. Out of 282 pages, little is spent on detailing scenes he worked. It would have been a more interesting read had he stuck to his original goal of the book - detailing the work done once the police leave.
Summary of Aftermath, Inc.: Cleaning Up After CSI Goes Home
A crime writer who thought he could handle anything confronts the worst of everything. Violent and unattended deaths...suicide...forensics...viral pathology...crime scene myths...The stories behind Aftermath, Inc. are stranger than fiction, and utterly human and compelling.Like most people, true-crime writer Gil Reavill had never actually experienced a fresh crime scene. That is, until he met Tim Reifsteck and Chris Wilson, owners of Aftermath, Inc., a company in the new field of "bioremediation." In the mid-80s, when a sea change occurred in the way biohazard clean-up was handled, no one in traditional cleaning or janitorial services would come within ten feet of a blood-spattered crime scene. Into this void stepped lifelong friends Tim and Chris, who filled a desperate need by founding their company. For the guys of Aftermath, no crime scene is too bloody to clean.
Aftermath, Inc. traces their history, introducing their clients and employees, and the cops, coroners, and detectives they encounter in their work. Gil goes on scene and works side by side with the Aftermath technicians. He tells the stories that led up to some of Aftermath's most grisly clean-up jobs, taking us on a journey through the suburban Midwest where the company is based, home to some of the quietest, calmest, most ordinary blocks in the world, which hide much darker undercurrents beneath.
The issues that the Aftermath crew members face on a daily basis range from the mundane (What's the best way to suppress the urge to regurgitate?) to the lofty (How does being exposed to death on a daily basis alter one's personal philosophy?). Reavill approaches his task with respect and compassion, taking as his mantra a line from the Roman poet Terence-- "Nothing human is foreign to me."
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