From legendary FBI profiler John Douglas and Mark Olshaker -- authors of
the nonfiction international bestsellers Mindhunter, Journey into
Darkness, and Obsession -- comes an unprecedented, insightful look at
the root of all crime.
Every crime is a mystery story with a motive at its heart. With the
brilliant insight he brought to his renowned work inside the FBI's elite
serial-crime unit, John Douglas pieces together motives behind violent
sociopathic behavior. He not only takes us into the darkest recesses of
the minds of arsonists, hijackers, bombers, poisoners, assassins, serial
killers, and mass murderers, but also the seemingly ordinary people who
suddenly kill their families or go on a rampage in the workplace.
Douglas identifies the antisocial personality, showing surprising
similarities and differences among various types of deadly offenders. He
also tracks the progressive escalation of those criminals' sociopathic
behavior. His analysis of such diverse killers as Lee Harvey Oswald,
Theodore Kaczynski, and Timothy McVeigh is gripping, but more
importantly, helps us learn how to anticipate potential violent behavior
before it's too late