PublishedArrow, October 2017 |
ISBN9781787460614 |
FormatSoftcover, 448 pages |
Dimensions19.8cm × 12.9cm × 2.7cm |
Mindhunter is a real-life, fascinating insight into the life of a FBI Special Agent, and the minds of the psychologically disturbed serial killers he hunts.
The bestselling true story and inspiration behind the hit Netflix show of how one underfunded FBI team became the first to explore the dark world of serial murderers.
John Douglas is a former FBI Special Agent and expert in criminal profiling and behavioural science. He made a career of looking evil in the eye - and understanding it. No wonder that he was the inspiration for Special Agent Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs, as well as the film's consultant on the reality of serial killers.
Douglas invented and established the practice of criminal profiling, and submerged himself in the world of serial killers in a quest to understand why they killed, and to help prevent more innocent lives from being ended by future killers. As his serial crime unit developed from a derided two-bit operation in a dingy officer to one of the FBI's elite task forces, Douglas personally confronted the most terrible crimes of the age, including those of Jeffrey Dahmer, Charles Manson, Ted Bundy and the Atlanta child murderer.
With the fierce page-turning power of a bestselling novel, yet terrifyingly true, Mindhunter is a true crime classic.
'John Douglas knows more about serial killers than anybody in the world' - Jonathan Demme, director of The Silence of the Lambs
'A cracker of a book' - Esquire
Bill is one of the founders of Boffins and has been involved in selecting the books we stock since our beginning in 1989. His favourite reading is history, with psychology, current affairs, and business books coming close behind. His hobbies are reading, food, reading, drinking, reading, and sleeping.
John Douglas is the man who was the inspiration for Special Agent Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs and who lent the film's makers his expertise. This book is not new, but it’s been made into a recent TV series, and reissued with a new introduction. In this book Douglas explains how he invented and established the practice of criminal profiling. It’s a revealing look at what it was like to submerge himself mentally in the world of serial killers to the point of 'becoming' both perpetrator and victim. He discusses many individual case histories including those of Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, Edmund Kemper and the Atlanta child murders. This is a true crime classic. John Douglas probably knows more about serial killers than anybody in the world. As he recounts case after case, you’ll find yourself saying “just one more chapter,” until you get to the end.
