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In The Killer Across the Table, legendary FBI criminal profiler and number one best-selling author John Douglas delves deep into the lives and crimes of four of the most disturbing and complex predatory killers he’s encountered, offering never-before-revealed details about his profiling process and divulging the strategies used to crack some of his most challenging cases.

Worshippers stream out of an Midwestern synagogue after sabbath services, unaware that only a hundred yards away, an expert marksman and avowed racist, antisemite and member of the Ku Klux Klan, patiently awaits, his hunting rifle at the ready. A riveting, cautionary tale rooted in history that continues to echo today, The Killer's Shadow is a terrifying and essential exploration of the criminal personality in the vile grip of extremism and what happens when rage-filled speech evolves into deadly action and hatred of the “other" is allowed full reign.

Bonus material! Includes an excerpt from John Douglas and Mark Olshaker’s Obsession! Discover the classic behind-the-scenes chronicle of John E. Douglas’ 25-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.

We accompany him on the Journey Into Darkness that marks every case he examines; every instance in which he helps police identify the unknown perpetrator of a violent series of rapes, kidnappings, or murders through his remarkable criminal personality profiling.

On May 31, 1985, two days before her high school graduation, Shari Smith was abducted from the driveway of her family home in South Carolina. Based on the crime scene and the abductor’s repeated and taunting calls to the family, law enforcement quickly realized they were dealing with a sophisticated and highly dangerous criminal.

He has hunted some of the most notorious and sadistic criminals of our time: The Trailside Killer in San Francisco, the Atlanta Child murderer. He has confronted, interviewed and researched dozens of serial killers and assassins -- including Charles Manson, Richard Speck, John Wayne Gacy, and James Earl Ray -- for a landmark study to understand their motives. To get inside their minds.

Unlike natural disasters, whose destruction is concentrated in a limited area over a period of days, and illnesses, which have devastating effects but are limited to individuals and their families, infectious disease has the terrifying power to disrupt everyday life on a global scale, overwhelming public and private resources and bringing trade and transportation to a grinding halt.

John Douglas war der erste Profiler des FBI und ist Vorbild für den FBI-Agenten Holden Ford in der Netflix-Serie "Mindhunter". In seinem Buch, auf dem die Erfolgsserie basiert, erzählt Douglas nicht nur, wie er die Praxis des Profilings erfand, etablierte und perfektionierte, sondern auch von seinen Begegnungen mit den gefährlichsten Killern der USA, darunter Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, Ed Kemper und Ed Gein, dem Thomas Harris als Buffalo Bill in "Das Schweigen der Lämmer" ein literarisches Denkmal setzte.

The Covid-19 pandemic was the most devastating natural event of the last century, killing more than 7 million people around the globe, straining the fabric of societies internationally, and shaking the foundations of the global economy. And yet, as horrifying as the experience was, Covid-19 was not actually “the Big One”—the dreaded potential pandemic that haunts the nightmares of epidemiologists and public health officials everywhere, and which will alter life across the world on every meaningful level unless we are ready to deal with it.

Durante as mais de duas décadas em que atuou no FBI, o agente especial John Douglas tornou-se uma figura lendária. Em uma época em que a expressão "serial killer" nem existia, Douglas foi um oficial exemplar na aplicação da lei e na perseguição aos mais conhecidos e sádicos homicidas de nosso tempo. Como Jack Crawford em O Silêncio dos Inocentes, Douglas confrontou, entrevistou e estudou dezenas de serial killers e assassinos, incluindo Charles Manson, Ted Bundy e Ed Gein.

Diferentemente de desastres naturais, cuja destruição está concentrada em uma área limitada por um período de dias, doenças infecciosas têm o terrível poder de destruir o cotidiano das pessoas em escala global, consumindo de forma avassaladora recursos públicos e privados e interrompendo o comércio e o transporte. No mundo de hoje, é muito fácil deslocar pessoas, animais e materiais pelo planeta, mas os mesmos avanços que tornaram as infraestruturas do mundo moderno tão eficientes também transformaram as epidemias e pandemias em situações praticamente inevitáveis.

Ob David Berkowitz, Ted Bundy oder Jeffrey Dahmer: Es gibt kaum einen US-Serienkiller, den John Douglas als weltweit führender Experte und Pionier im Bereich Profiling nicht befragt hätte. Nach seinem Bestseller "Mindhunter", Vorlage für die erfolgreiche Netflix-Serie, taucht er in "Reise in die Finsternis" nun noch tiefer in die Gedankenwelt von Serienmördern und anderen gefährlichen Verbrechern wie dem Unabomber ein. Am Beispiel zahlreicher, mitunter erschreckender Fälle offenbart er, mithilfe welcher Methoden es gelingt, Mörder, ihre Emotionen und Motive ausfindig zu machen.