John Douglas - Mindhunter

One finally feels that Mr. Douglass keen eye for crime-scene detail and his powerful inductive reasoning cannot be explained any more than one can explain his murderous quarries capacity for merciless savagery By the winter of 1981, when Atlanta became the hunting ground of a cunning killer of black children, the FBIs profiles had contributed to the apprehension of so many murderers that Mr. Douglas was willing to endure public scorn by announcing that these killings were not hate crimes perpetrated by the Ku Klux Klan, as some believed, but were the work of a lone black man between twenty-five and twenty-nine years old. He predicted that the culprit would be a police buff, drive a police-type vehicle He would have a police-type dog, either a German shepherd or a Doberman. When Wayne Bertram Williams, a twenty-three-year-old black man, was taken into custody, he fit our profile in every key respect. Mr. Douglas sets out to produce a good true-crime book, but because of his insights and the power of his material, he gives us more he leaves us shaken, gripped by a quiet grief for the innocent victims and anguished by the human condition.

Dean Koontz, The New York Times Book Review

John Douglas is a brilliant man And hes a great guy, very articulate, very sweet. I wanted to cast him as Agent Jack Crawford in the movie.

Jonathan Demme, director of The Silence of the Lambs

AN ALTERNATE SELECTION OF Doubleday Book Club The Literary Guild Mystery Guild

John Douglas is the FBIs pioneer and master of investigative profiling, and one of the most exciting figures in law enforcement Ive had the privilege of knowing With Mr. Douglas we explore why there are monsters.

Patricia Cornwell, bestselling author of The Body Farm and From Potters Field

A quirky, winning tale of awful crimes and awe-inspiring detective work Douglas gives us a pair of human eyes through which to view crimes and criminals that are at once grotesque and compelling In the end, MINDHUNTER rings the bell because Douglas knows what all the great crime writers know that the criminologist must be at least as interesting as the crime. On that score, Douglas fits the profile.

Richard Willing, USA Today

Although Douglass profiles reflect years of experience, theres an uncanniness about their level of detail: He can predict the make and color of a killers car. In the Trailside Killer case in which Northern California hikers were slain in 1979, Douglas rightly predicted the assailant was a stutterer Called the FBIs modern Sherlock Holmes, Douglas says he comes up with such details by going into a trancelike state in which he becomes both killer and victim Douglass conservative estimate is that there are between thirty-five and fifty serial killers hard at work around the country right now, leaving several hundred dead people in their wake each year.

Deb Price, The Detroit News

In this fascinating memoir of his twenty-five-year career with the FBI, John Douglas contends that psychopathic serial killers have a warped need to kill The key to Douglass approach is to look for the signatureas opposed to the modus operandi of serial killers Douglas is at his best describing the terrible crimes that were committed and explaining the logic of his profiling method.

Charles P. Thobae, Houston Chronicle

A fascinating journey into the thrill killers psyche Douglas seems to have a true gift of instinct. MINDHUNTER is gripping.

Lou Grieco, Dayton (OH) Daily News

Hannibal Lecter may have been a fictional creation, but his counterparts exist in real life, and Douglas has tracked down, testified against or just sat down and talked with dozens of them A chilling memoir.

Lynda Hurst, Toronto Star

In his spellbinding new book, the legendary Douglas delves into much of the gritty how-to of criminal personality profiling. Hes downright gifted I defy anyone interested in psychology, detective work, or logic and puzzle-solving, to put MINDHUNTER willingly aside once begun.

Ann G. Sjoerdsma, Virginian-Pilot