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Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit Paperback – October 24, 2017

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Discover the classic, behind-the-scenes chronicle of John E. Douglas’ twenty-five-year career in the FBI Investigative Support Unit, where he used psychological profiling to delve into the minds of the country’s most notorious serial killers and criminals.

In chilling detail, the legendary Mindhunter takes us behind the scenes of some of his most gruesome, fascinating, and challenging cases—and into the darkest recesses of our worst nightmares.

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, Douglas has confronted, interviewed, and studied scores of serial killers and assassins, including Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, and Ed Gein, who dressed himself in his victims' peeled skin. Using his uncanny ability to become both predator and prey, Douglas examines each crime scene, reliving both the killer's and the victim's actions in his mind, creating their profiles, describing their habits, and predicting their next moves.

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John Douglas knows more about serial killers than anybody else in the world.

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John Douglas is the legendary FBI criminal profiler and former Chief of the FBI’s Behavioral Sciences Unit where he researched, investigated, and conducted interviews of some of America’s most violent criminals. Over the past half-century, he either directly worked on or had overall supervision in over 5,000 violent crime cases. He is one of the foremost experts of the criminal mind, its methods, and motivations. Douglas is a veteran of the United States Air Force and holds a doctorate degree in Education, and lives with his wife, Pamela, in the Washington, DC, area.

Mark Olshaker is an Emmy Award–winning documentary filmmaker and author of thirteen nonfiction books and five novels, including Einstein’s Brain and The Edge. His books with former FBI Special Agent and criminal profiling pioneer John Douglas, beginning with Mindhunter and most recently When a Killer Calls, have sold millions of copies and have been translated into many languages. Mindhunter was recently adapted by David Fincher into a critically acclaimed and award-winning dramatic series on Netflix. Olshaker and his wife, Carolyn, an attorney, live in the Washington, DC, area.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gallery Books; Media Tie-In edition (October 24, 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 448 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1501191969
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1501191961
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.12 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.1 x 9 inches

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Brandy A Binfield

Great book

Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2024

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This author is one of my favorites... FBI agents account of hunting criminals... count me in and extremely well written

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Neosha Koch

Worth it!

Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2024

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Love this book, page turner! Must read you will not be dissatisfied.

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J. Fallon

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Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2010

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As a senior at the University of Maryland double majoring in Criminal Justice and Psychology I picked up this book because of professional interests. The beginning is told like most prideful autobiographies that have the intention of communicating the God-like nature of the author (think Dick Marcinco - The Rogue Warrior, Frank W. Abagnale Jr. - Catch Me If You Can etc.)The descriptions of John Douglas' younger years were kind of tedious and uninteresting(the first 65 pages or so,) as the reason I picked up the book was to get a better overall understanding of investigative profiling.

Most of the book is fairly well written, and interesting to read. Douglas points out that he has been the lead profiler in many of the serial crimes cases that Americans seem to wet their pants over. (The Unabomber, The Atlanta-Child Murderer, The Green River Killer) He also describes the process by which he interviewed many serial killers after they were caught. Most of the book is dedicated to showing the accuracy of criminal profiles when done by someone who knows what they're talking about. Douglas proves this point over and over again, making ney-sayers look stupid over and over again.

I enjoyed the book, but I had several issues with its content.

1. When Douglas relates his first person encounters with criminal interviewing he often goes into an extremely poor writing style exchanging the first person for the second, and exchanging the past tense for the present. He also is fond of using the term "like" a lot just like a valley girl. An example of this would be "Then we were all like this guy is crazy. . ." instead of "I knew what the other team members were thinking, we all thought he was crazy. . ." Because of this, I often found myself rephrasing this poor form of writing while I was reading it in order to get a better understanding.

2. It has some fallacious information do to the publication date. I think newer editions should come with extra content do to the development of what has recently happened in several cases mentioned in the end of the book. Mainly that the Green-River killer turned out to be - one person(not three) - Garry Ridgway; And that BTK was caught and shown to be Dennis Rader. Douglas also gives a bit of spurious information at the end about how Jack the Ripper was the first media sensationalized serial killer - that was actually Gilles De Rais. He probably just didn't consider the French media of the 1400's to be sensationalized enough.

Besides those two points Dr. Douglas did a fine job telling of his experiences and definitely got me interested in the field of investigative criminal profiling. If your looking for a more collegiate version of this book without the personal annals check out Robert K. Resslers (John Douglas' partner) Profilers: Leading Investigators Take You Inside The Criminal Mind

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Interesting and Informative

Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2012

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"Mind Hunter" is the first book by former FBI agent John Douglas and his co-author Mark Olshaker. This book is a good introduction to the work of the FBI Behavioral Science Investigative Support Unit that the author helped found and to which he devoted many years of his life. Douglas offers a pleasant though sometimes dry history of how he came to the unit then goes on to describe much more interesting case studies of some of the cases he and his colleagues helped investigate during his career with the FBI, including BTK, the Green River Killer, the Atlanta Child Murders, the Tylenol tamperings, and many other less-renown cases.

It's a very interesting read to anyone who is interested in forensic or criminal psychology. Douglas is often criticized for being too egoistic in his tellings of these investigations, but I really think he's just telling the stories from his point of view and does a pretty good job of giving credit where it's due. I actually read his book "Anatomy of Motive" before I read "Mind Hunter." Honestly, I liked "Motive" better. "Mind Hunter" is pretty slow at the beginning when it's basically just Douglas's autobiography. I was disappointed that he references many of the same cases in both the books, and that makes me less excited to read the rest of his works.

The bottom line is, though, this is a good true-crime book. It's informative on the intellectual level and just plain interesting for the serial-killer buffs out there. If you have any kind of interest in this subject, I highly recommend this as a quick and easy read.

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A Great Read -- for Half the Population

Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2013

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If you are a liberal, I would recommend that you stop reading this review immediately. And not to discourage sales of this fine book, but I would also recommend that you steer clear of making a purchase as well.

John Douglas makes no bones about the fact that he has no problems with guns or capital punishment. And if you are an UNSUB -- the F.B.I.s acronym for "unknown subject," and one that Mr. Douglas uses often throughout -- but later are convicted, he doesn't have much time worrying about cruel and unusual punishment for you either. He even discusses this at the end of a chapter, comparing the needs of a serial killer versus the needs of the victims' families. Guess which one is more important to Mr. Douglas?

And I really appreciated this perspective myself, since authors often times play both sides of an argument to not offend anyone, and therefore try to squeak out a few more sales. That doesn't work well with me, and Mr. Douglas does not make that rookie mistake. One thing that I remember from my early days in school from the best teachers: "Pick a side of an argument and argue it!" Most Americans nowadays don't know how to argue because at least they aren't willing to choose a side. And forget about all of the logical fallacies that usually go along with it.

But Mr. Douglas does do a fine job of arguing throughout this book. While he might give multiple sides of an argument, he will then finally argue which side is the "correct" one with strong evidence as for why. Nothing wrong with that. As a matter of fact, it is a good tactic if you are going to enter into debate: address your competition's points and attack them before he has a chance to speak. It gives you the upper hand.

I don't think that it could easily be argued, however, that Mr. Douglas is the greatest writer in the world. I read a book from Dr. Robert Keppel -- a police officer, detective, and retired professor in Seattle -- and his writing style was surely better. But these two guys are at least strong acquaintances; Mr. Douglass alludes to that point at least once in the book. And there is a passage in one of the chapters where Mr. Douglas is discussing Dr. Keppel and another gentleman named "Robert" or "Bob" and the author seemed to use both names interchangeably, so I was lost figuring out which "Bob" or "Robert" that the passage was discussing. And I even read a couple of pages twice and I was still confused.

But it's not the case that Mr. Douglas is a bad writer, far from it; you could just say that it is not his number one forte. That is fine and understood. He surely is one of the greatest profilers ever, and I "enjoyed" -- if "enjoyed" is the correct word -- reading about many of the cases that he worked on in which I'm already aware. I have read so many true crime books now that, as a matter of fact, it was unusual if he discussed a case in which I wasn't already familiar.

I think that the strongest point of this work: Mr. Douglas does not talk down to his readers. Even though it's probably not true, he is nice enough to the reader to at least make you believe you could become a profiler yourself given enough time and education. After all, he has many "disciples" that he has trained himself, and that might be his greatest legacy. (As a side note, and a possible theme of the book: he discusses the Manson murders at one point, of course. Mr. Douglas even called Manson's followers "disciples," and it got me thinking: Mr. Manson and Mr. Douglas have some similarities, but Mr. Douglas used his strengths for good while Mr. Manson used his strengths for evil.)

And so I will leave you with some advice if you are considering reading this fine book. I would "bone up" on as many cases as you possibly can first; it will help you when reading this book I believe. And if you are at that point -- and are a conservative as well -- I highly recommend making that purchase and be ready for an inside look at how the F.B.I. really works.

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Katya Deyanira Céspedes Solís

Interesante

Reviewed in Mexico on January 3, 2024

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Buen libro

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Keyla

Libro molto atteso. Ottimo per chi è appassionato di psicologia

Reviewed in Italy on December 25, 2022

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Era già esaurito nelle librerie. La consegna è stata di meno di 24 ore. Felicissima

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It's Dope.

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Diversão* garantida

Reviewed in Brazil on February 24, 2018

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Minha avaliação vai ser dividida em duas partes:
1) O livro é muito interessante ao mesmo tempo que é pitoresco. Explicou-me: O autor, que possui um ego enorme, narra a si mesmo como “O CARA “. As vezes chega até a ser engraçado quando ele sugere que foi a partir da suas experiências de campo que o autor de o Silêncio dos Inocentes se baseou para escrever a sua obra. Por outro lado, é inegável (pela profundidade com q ele aborda os crimes narrados) que ele estava lá e sabe muito bem do que está falando. Alguns capítulos dão medo.
2) Essa foi minha primeira experiência com e-books e eu fiquei muito satisfeito. Tanto que vou adotar esse formato para as minhas leituras em inglês.

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