The legendary FBI criminal profiler, number-oneNew York Timesbestselling author, and inspiration for the hit Netflix showMindhunterdelves deep into the lives and crimes offour of the most disturbing and complex predatory killers, offering never-before-revealed details about his profiling process, and divulging the strategiesused to crack some of Americas most challenging cases.The FBIs pioneer of criminal profiling, former special agentJohn Douglas, has studiedand interviewed many of Americas most notorious killersincluding Charles Manson,Son of Sam KillerDavid Berkowitz andBTK StranglerDennis Radertrained FBI agents and investigators around andtheworld, andhelped educate the country about these deadly predators and how they operate, and has become a legend in popular culture, fictionalized inThe Silence of the Lambsand the hit television showsCriminal MindsandMindhunter.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 hes confronted, interviewed and learned from. Going deep into each mans life and crimes, he outlines the factors that led them to murder and how he used his interrogation skills to expose theirmeans, motives, andtrue evil. Like the hit Netflix show,The Killer Across the Tableis centered around Douglas uniqueinterrogation and profiling process. With his longtime collaborator Mark Olshaker, Douglas recounts the chilling encounters with these four killers as he experienced themrevealing for the first time his profile methods in detail.Going step by step through his interviews, Douglas explains how he connects each killers 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, hereturns 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 Tableunlocks the ultimate mysteryof depravity and the techniques and approaches that have countered evil in the name of justice.
