The Anatomy of Motive: The FBI's Legendary Mindhunter Explores The Key To Understanding and Catching Violent Criminals by Douglas John and Mark Olshaker - 1999

New York: Scribner, 1999. John Douglas has become a leading expert on criminal - personality profiling and the pioneer of modern criminal investigative analysis during his remarkable twenty-five year career with the FBI. The author takes us further than ever before into the dark corners of the minds of arsonists, bombers, poisoners, serial and spree killers, and mass murderers. Drawing on cases from todays headlines, he looks at recent sniper incidents at schools and other public places to penetrate the minds and motivations of mass killers. As Douglas tracks the progressive escalation of these criminals' sociopathic behavior, he also shows the common elements in many of their pasts that link them together. The profiles and narrative read like the best mystery fiction. Such killers as Lee Harvey Oswald, Theodore Kaczynski, and Timothy McVeigh are analyzed. A clean, bright copy in an illustrated price-intact dust jacket.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.