Today’s nonfiction post is on The
Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators
with the FBI's Original Mindhunter by John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker. It is
352 pages long and is published by Dey Street Books. The cover is a picture of
a single chair across from the table from the viewer. The intended reader is
someone who is interested in criminal profiling, history of the FBI, and serial
killers. There is foul language, sex, sexual violence, murder, and violence.
There Be Spoilers Ahead.
From
the blurb on Cloud library- 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 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 killers—including Charles Manson, ”Son of Sam Killer” David Berkowitz and ”BTK Strangler” Dennis Rader—trained FBI agents and investigators around and 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 criminals 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’ unique interrogation and profiling 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 the process, 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 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.
The FBI’s pioneer of criminal profiling, former special agent John Douglas, has studied and interviewed many of America’s most notorious killers—including Charles Manson, ”Son of Sam Killer” David Berkowitz and ”BTK Strangler” Dennis Rader—trained FBI agents and investigators around and 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 criminals 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’ unique interrogation and profiling 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 the process, 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 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.
Review-
An interesting and in depth look into both the men who killed and the men who
hunted them, then studied them. Douglas gives insight into why he started
studying this men, trying to understand what made them, and what, if again, can
be done to stop them from being made. The writing is good, Douglas has a
particular style with the reader meeting the main subject then he will link
them to another more famous killer and how they were alike. No details are held
back, so this book is not for the faint of heart but it is the crimes discussed
are not commonly known and their deaths have been largely forgotten. If you are
interested in true crime and profiling then you need to read this book.
I
give this book a Four out of Five stars. I get nothing for my review and I
borrowed this book from my local library Cloud Library account.
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