My Review (5 stars out of 5)
This is the story of how FBI agent John Douglas helped set up the Behavioural Science unit, which also inspired the hit Netflix show of the same name. Spending time interviewing serial killers and teaching profiling skills to other agents and police officers, Douglas himself was the model for the character of Jack Crawford in Silence of the Lambs.
A you’d expect in a book about talking to serial killers, much of the detail surrounding cases of abduction, torture and murder leaves nothing to the imagination. The level of gore and mutilation described means this is not a book to read during meal times, or for anyone who is the least bit squeamish. Covering the likes of Ed Kemper, Charlie Manson and Arthur Shawcross, Douglas relates fascinating insights into his way of working and how his methods led to the capture of killers who might have otherwise evaded justice forever.
Highly detailed and morbidly enthralling this is a must-read for anyone interested in true crime and the criminal mind.
Colin Garrow 