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Mindhunter [Kindle Edition]

Mark Olshaker , John E. Douglas
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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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.

Now, 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.


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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 2561 KB
  • Print Length: 444 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0671528904
  • Publisher: Scribner (November 26, 1998)
  • Sold by: Simon and Schuster Digital Sales Inc
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B000FC0RRY
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  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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3.0 out of 5 stars Douglas's career through his own eyes, June 18, 2010
This review is from: Mindhunter (Kindle Edition)
This book offered a unique opportunity to see a number of personally important and particularly illustrative cases through John Douglas's eyes. Unfortunately, it seems difficult for Douglas to leave behind his bias and write for the reader rather than himself. There are some sections of the book that drag on far longer than they need to and while I appreciate their importance to him as a reader I'm simply not as invested as he is.

He's also very clear and up front about his own philosophy of crime, its causes, and its related ethics. I often found myself disagreeing with him but he presents this material in way that's well reasoned, well argued, and only approaches abrasive without actually crossing the line. I appreciated his restraint and as a result can respect his opinions even if I don't agree with them.

Overall I think this was one of the more informative books to come out of the Investigative Support Unit, though it wasn't one of the more cohesive and poetic works.

Kindle edition: This book isn't in Topaz format but there's a strange glitch that makes the text appear one size larger than the actual setting. It's well formatted otherwise but do be aware that you'll likely need to bump the text size down a notch.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Love it!, March 9, 2010
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This book is excellent. Being a criminal justice major and self-proclaimed buff, I can say that reading this has given me insight and further interested me in behavioral analysis. Douglas has a way of keeping the reader interested without using big, hard to understand words. He grabs you from the beginning with his own personal history and humble start into the field. He is genius and I thoroughly enjoyed this read....couldn't put it down!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Another Great one by John Douglas, August 10, 2010
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This is one of my favorite authors of true crime. He has a certain flair for combining total facts with creative writing to make the true stories interesing, factual but not boring at all.

It's amazing how the profiling works out, but as proven in this book, it does. You won't want to put this book down.
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