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ERIC EMERAUX is a Colonel (ER) of the French Gendarmerie Nationale. After a career in the French Army, he joined the Gendarmerie Nationale where he held various leadership positions before being appointed commander of a Regional Criminal Investigations Unit (2004-2009) and advising the Gendarmerie Regional Commander of Lyon on criminal investigations (2009-2012). After five years (2012-2017) as a police attaché at the French Embassy in Sarajevo, he was appointed head of the Central Office for Combatting crimes against Humanity, Genocides, War Crimes and Hate Crimes (OCLCH) a criminal investigation interagencies central unit based in Paris. He retired from the gendarmerie in 2020. La traque est mon métier, published by Plon in 2020, was awarded the Ouvrage de la Gendarmerie 2021 and the Prix des lecteurs du Ministère de la Défense 2022. It is translated and published in English as Hunting Monsters by Sutherland House

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For years, a small unit of France's national police known as 'The Office in Charge of the Fight Against Crimes Against Humanity' has been discreetly chasing down war criminals.

As the head of the thirty-person team, Colonel Eric Emeraux has investigated mass killings, summary executions, torture, and other abuses against civilian populations in Bosnia, Rwanda, Liberia, Syria, and other troubled lands.

Now, for the first time, he reveals how his team gathered evidence of unspeakable crimes, identified and located the perpetrators, and through careful surveillance and brilliant police work brought them to justice.

Hunting Monsters is a riveting true crime saga and a tribute to all those who fight for law in the face of force, and humanity in the face of terror. Translated from the French, La Traque est Mon Métier, Plon, 2020.