"During his twenty-five year career with the Investigative Support Unit, Special Agent John Douglas became a legendary figure in law enforcement, pursuing some of the most notorious and sadistic serial killers of our time: the man who hunted prostitutes for sport in the woods of Alaska, the Atlanta child murderer, and Seattle's Green River killer, the case that nearly cost Douglas his life. As the model for Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs,...

John Douglas, the FBI's pioneering, first full-time criminal profiler, presents a timely, relevant book that goes to the heart of extremism and domestic terrorism, examining in-depth his chilling pursuit of, and eventual prison confrontation with Joseph Paul Franklin, a White Nationalist serial killer and one of the most disturbing psychopaths he has ever encountered.

Discusses controversial cases throughout history that continue to hold our collective imagination, and our collective fears.

An examination of interpersonal crimes committed primarily against women and the elderly--supported by unique insight into the minds of the criminals who commit them.

While investigating a terrorist attack on a congressman's plane over Washington, FBI profiler Jake Donovan suddenly is called in to search for a missing weapons researcher and a missing young woman, a case that draws him into the deadly orbit of a terrorist group that will stop at nothing to stop him.

It is mankind's most abominable crime: murder. No one is better acquainted with the subject and its wrenching challenges than John Douglas, the FBI's pioneer of criminal profiling and the model for Agent Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs. In this provocative and deeply personal book, the most prominent criminal investigator of our time offers a rare look into the workings not only of the justice system - but of his own heart and mind. Writing...