The Killer Across the Table by John E Douglas

The Killer Across the Table by John E Douglas

The legendary FBI criminal profiler, number-one New York Times bestselling author, and inspiration for the hit Netflix show Mindhunter delves deep into the lives and crimes of four of the most disturbing and complex predatory killers, offering never-before-revealed details about his criminal profiling process, and divulging the strategies used to crack some of America's most challenging cases.



The FBI's pioneer of criminal profiling, former special agent John Douglas, has studied and interviewed many of America's most notorious serial killers--including Charles Manson, "Son of Sam Killer" David Berkowitz and "BTK Strangler" Dennis Rader--trained FBI agents and investigators around the world, and helped educate the country about these deadly predators and how they operate, and has become a legend in popular culture, fictionalized in The Silence of the Lambs and the hit television shows Criminal Minds and Mindhunter.

Twenty years after his famous memoir, the man who literally wrote the book on FBI criminal profiling opens his case files once again. In this riveting work of true crime, he spotlights four of the most diabolical violent predators he's confronted, interviewed and learned from. Going deep into each man's life and crimes, he outlines the factors that led them to murder and how he used his interrogation skills to expose their means, motives, and true evil. Like the hit Netflix show, The Killer Across the Table is centered around Douglas's unique interrogation and behavioral analysis process. With his longtime collaborator Mark Olshaker, Douglas recounts the chilling encounters with these four killers as he experienced them--revealing for the first time his profile methods in detail.

Going step by step through his interviews, Douglas explains how he connects each killer's crimes to the specific conversation, and contrasts these encounters with those of other deadly criminals to show what he learns from each one. In this masterclass of criminal psychology, he returns to other famous cases, killers and interviews that have shaped his career, describing how the knowledge he gained from those exchanges helped prepare him for these.

A glimpse into the mind of a killer from a man who has pierced the heart of human darkness, The Killer Across the Table unlocks the ultimate mystery of depravity and the techniques and approaches that have countered evil in the name of justice.

In these pages, you get a seat across the table from evil, learning directly from the master of the Behavioral Science Unit:

• Legendary Case Files: Go inside four of the most complex and disturbing cases of John Douglas's career, with never-before-revealed details about the predatory killers he confronted.
• The Mindhunter's Process: Discover the step-by-step interrogation and profiling methods that inspired the hit Netflix show and changed modern criminal investigation.
• Conversations with Killers: Sit in on the chilling interviews as Douglas explains how he connects each killer's personal history and motives to the crimes they committed.
• Nature vs. Nurture: Explore the central debate of behavioral science as Douglas uses these four diabolical criminals to unpack the ultimate mystery of depravity.

JOHN DOUGLAS, the legendary FBI criminal profiler and New York Times bestselling author, has spent over twenty-five years hunting the worst of the worst, researching and culling the stories of America's most disturbing criminals. A veteran of the United States Air Force, he has been involved with more than five thousand violent crime cases over the past half century. He holds a doctorate degree in education based on teaching police officers methods of crime classification, he is an active consultant, and is a highly sought-after speaker. One of the foremost experts and investigators of criminal minds and motivations, he and his wife, Pam, a teacher, live in the Washington, DC area.

MARK OLSHAKER is an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and author of twelve nonfiction books and five novels, including Einstein's Brain and The Edge. His books with John Douglas, beginning with Mindhunter and, most recently, The Killer's Shadow, have sold millions of copies and have been translated into many languages. Mindhunter has been made into a dramatic series on Netflix, directed by David Fincher. Olshaker has also written extensive on another subject of deadly mysteries: disease detection and public health. His book Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs, with Dr. Michael Osterholm, predicted the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic and became a New York Times bestseller. He and his wife, Carolyn, an attorney, live in the Washington, DC area.

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ISBN 13	9780062910646
ISBN 10	0062910647
Title	The Killer Across the Table
Author	John E Douglas
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Year published	2020-05-26
Number of pages	352
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