Anatomy of Motive: The FBI's Legendary Mindhunter Explores the Key to Understanding and Catching Violent Criminals » (Reprint)

John Douglas was the founder and head of the FBI's Investigative Support Unit, which was formed in 1980. He retired from the Bureau after twenty-five years of service. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books on criminal profiling, including The Cases That Haunt Us, The Anatomy of Motive, Obsession, Journey into Darkness, Unabomber, and the #1 New York Times bestseller Mindhunter, as well as the novels Man Down and Broken Wings — all available from Pocket Books.

Visit his website at www.johndouglasmindhunter.com.

From legendary FBI profiler John Douglas and Mark Olshaker—authors of the nonfiction international bestsellers Mindhunter, Journey into Darkness, and Obsession—comes an unprecedented, insightful look at the root of all crime.

Every crime is a mystery story with a motive at its heart. With the brilliant insight he brought to his renowned work inside the FBI's elite serial-crime unit, John Douglas pieces together motives behind violent sociopathic behavior. He not only takes us into the darkest recesses of the midns of arsonists, hijackers, bombers, poisoners, assassins, serial killers, and mass murderers, but also the seemingly ordinary people who suddenly kill their families or go on a rampage in the workplace.

Douglas identifies the antisocial personality, showing surprising similarities and differences among various types of deadly offenders. He also tracks the progressive escalation of those criminals' sociopathic behavior. His analysis of such diverse killers as Lee Harvey Oswald, Theordore Kaczynski, and Timothy McVeigh is gripping, but more importantly, helps us learn how to anticipate potential violent bahavior before it's too late.

New York Post - Liz Smith

A marvelous, thrilling, chilling, and riveting read.

Contents

Prologue: Dunblane

One: What I Learned from the Bad Guys

Two: Playing with Fire

Three: Magnum Force

Four: Name Your Poison

Five: Guys Who Snap

Six: On the Run

Seven: Shadow of a Gunman

Eight: Random Acts of Violence

Nine: You Make the Call

Index