{"product_id":"the-killer-across-the-table-unlocking-the-secrets-of-serial-killers-and-predators-with-the-fbis-original-mindhunter-isbn-9780062910639","title":"The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe legendary FBI criminal profiler, number-one \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author, and inspiration for the hit Netflix show \u003cem\u003eMindhunter\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Silence of the Lambs\u003c\/em\u003e and the hit television shows \u003cem\u003eCriminal Minds\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMindhunter.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwenty 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, \u003cem\u003eThe Killer Across the Table\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGoing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA glimpse into the mind of a man who has pierced the heart of human darkness, \u003cem\u003eThe Killer Across the Table\u003c\/em\u003e unlocks the ultimate mystery of depravity and the techniques and approaches that have countered evil in the name of justice.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling authors of Mindhunter comes their most riveting tale yet . . .\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLegendary FBI criminal profiler and former special agent John Douglas is known for helping to crack some of America’s most challenging murder cases. The FBI’s pioneer of criminal profiling and the inspiration behind the hit Netflix show \u003cem\u003eMindhunter\u003c\/em\u003e, Douglas has spent decades working with law enforcement to understand the criminal mind and hunt serial killers and violent predators. In that time, he has researched, interviewed, and analyzed some of America’s most notorious murderers—including Charles Manson, “Son of Sam Killer” David Berkowitz, and “BTK Strangler” Dennis Rader—while also training FBI agents and investigators from around the world on profiling and interrogating these deadly predators.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, in \u003cem\u003eThe Killer Across the Table\u003c\/em\u003e, Douglas, along with his longtime collaborator Mark Olshaker, turns his keen eye on the lives and crimes of four of the most disturbing killers he has confronted, explaining in detail how each case expanded his knowledge and study of criminal behavior. Offering never-before-revealed details about his interview techniques and profiling process, Douglas goes step by step through his encounters with these murderers, connecting each sadistic predator’s crimes to his conversation with them and showing how he used his interrogation skills to expose their true evil. He also returns to other famous cases he’s worked on—the investigations and interviews that have shaped his career—describing how the knowledge he gained from those conversations helped prepare him for these.\u003c\/p\u003eAt once fascinating and haunting, \u003cem\u003eThe Killer Across the Table\u003c\/em\u003e unlocks the ultimate mysteries behind these depraved killers, revealing the psychology that led them into darkness.  Twenty years after his famous memoir, the man who literally wrote the book on FBI criminal profiling opens his case files once more, showing his unprecedented ability to get into the heads of both predator and prey as he talks to the country’s most dangerous men. | \u003cp\u003e“This fascinating and haunting expert account helps us understand why the most shocking homicides occur... [this] will be of particularly urgent interest.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e- Booklist starred review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An eye-opening and chilling look into the minds of brutal murderers…Douglas succeeds in taking readers inside his own mind as he worked to understand ‘four killers [he] confronted’…separating fact from fiction, Douglas adds to lay readers’ understanding of human evil.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e- Publishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A] must read for everyone wanting to understand the minds of depraved serial killers. Once again John Douglas walks into rooms most of us would shun in our worst nightmares and comes back with remarkable insight into what type of person perpetrates such horrible acts.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Journal of Books on The Killer Across the Table\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This fascinating and haunting expert account helps us understand why the most shocking homicides occur . . . [this] will be of particularly urgent interest.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist (starred review) on The Killer Across the Table\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“John Douglas is the FBI’s pioneer and master of investigative profiling, and one of the most exciting figures in law enforcement I’ve had the privilege of knowing. At last, in this chronicle of his remarkable and chilling career, he allows all of us to accompany him into unthinkably dark places. . . . With Mr. Douglas we explore why there are monsters.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePatricia Cornwell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Mr. Douglas sets out to produce a good true-crime book, but because of his insights and the power of his material, he gives us more—he leaves us shaken, gripped by a quiet grief for the innocent victims and anguished by the human condition.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDean Koontz, New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A] winning tale of awful crimes and awe-inspiring detective work. . . . Douglas gives us a pair of human eyes through which to view crimes and criminals that are at once grotesque and compelling.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Hannibal Lecter may have been a fictional creation but his counterparts exist in real life, and Douglas has tracked down, testified against, or just sat down and talked with dozens of them . . . a chilling memoir.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dey Street Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44889005654245,"sku":"NP9780062910639","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780062910639.jpg?v=1730230288","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-killer-across-the-table-unlocking-the-secrets-of-serial-killers-and-predators-with-the-fbis-original-mindhunter-isbn-9780062910639","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}