Mop Men: Inside the World of Crime Scene Cleaners

Neal Smither is making a killing. His business puts it plainly: "Crime Scene Cleaners: Homicides, Suicides and Accidental Death." Whenever a hotel guest decides to check out of life, the cops finish an investigation, or an accidental but bloody death is reported, Neal and the Crime Scene Cleaners are the ones picking up the pieces and mopping up the stains.

In 'Mop Men', journalist Alan Emmins follows Neal and his unlikely team to gory locations throughout California. He learns how the work is done–and how to make millions doing it. As Emmins rolls up his sleeves to get down with the gore, he takes us behind the scenes of this little-known aspect of society's most gruesome deaths. In the process, he examines not just the public fascination with murder but also how a man like Neal can make a living simply by praying for death.

Filled with eye-opening, gut-wrenching details of one of America's strangest jobs, Mop Men shows what life is like for the hugely successful and extremely eccentric Crime Scene Cleaners, the men who step in after CSI steps out.

"Alan Emmins has done something masterful here. 'Mop Men' takes you places that you never thought you'd go, introducing you to characters who typically live in the shadows. Compulsory reading for the crime-obsessed, equal parts disturbing and fascinating," Brad Listi, author of Attention. Deficit. Disorder.