Mindhunter: Inside the FBI Elite Serial Crime Unit (Now A Netflix Series)

by John E Douglas and Mark Olshaker

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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.
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'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

  • ISBN10 1787460614
  • ISBN13 9781787460614
  • Publish Date 2 November 2017 (first published 23 October 1995)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Cornerstone
  • Imprint Arrow Books Ltd
  • Edition Media tie-in
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 448
  • Language English