Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit

John Douglas; Mark Olshaker Illustrators: Skip Liepke (cover photo); Brian Bailey (cover art)

ISBN 10: 0671528904 / ISBN 13: 9780671528904

Published by Pocket Star Books, 1996

About this Item

Very Good. 1996. Pocket Star Books, New York. Previous owner's name to title page, else unmarked. Paperback. Binding tight, solid & square. Spine uncreased. Very clean and bright. No rips, tears, stains. Cover lies flat. B&w photographs. John Douglas & Mark Olshaker's chronicle of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit, the book behind the Netflix series & the inspiration for Jack Crawford of The Silence of the Lambs. Ships from the USA, quickly & w/care.

Synopsis:

Mindhunter presents a behind-the-scenes chronicle of John E. Douglas's pioneering twenty-five-year career in the FBI's Investigative Support Unit. Readers explore how Douglas revolutionized criminal investigations by developing psychological profiles to hunt serial killers. The text guides the reader through chilling real-life profiling cases and detailed interviews with notorious criminals, creating a foundational work of criminal psychology.

Pocket Star Books issued this edition in August 1996, w/ a dedicated section of black-and-white photographic plates that document key investigative figures and archival crime scene contexts. John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker co-authored the book, blending rigorous police procedurals w/ deeply personal investigative memoirs. The narrative outlines Douglas's encounters with high-profile killers such as Ted Bundy, Charles Manson, and Ed Gein, showing the evolution of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit from a small training division into an internationally recognized investigative force.

Douglas's pioneering investigative career directly inspired the fictional character Jack Crawford in Thomas Harris's psychological thrillers, including the novel The Silence of the Lambs, and the book was later adapted into a successful Netflix television series. Criminology students and true crime readers seek out the 1996 Pocket Books paperback as an authentic record of late-twentieth-century law enforcement history.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit
• Publisher: Pocket Star Books
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0671528904
• ISBN 13: 9780671528904
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: very good
• Weight: 29 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • True Crime

About this title

Synopsis

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—the basis for the upcoming Netflix original series.

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.

About the Authors

John E. Douglas is a former FBI special agent, the Bureau’s criminal profiling pioneer and one of the creators of the Crime Classification Manual. He is currently a consultant on criminal investigative analysis and the author, with Mark Olshaker, of Journey Into Darkness, The Anatomy of Motive, The Cases That Haunt Us, and Law & Disorder, among others.

Mark Olshaker is a novelist, nonfiction author, and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker. He has written and produced numerous documentaries, including the Emmy-nominated PBS NOVA program Mind of a Serial Killer.