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The Anatomy of Motive
by John Douglas, Mark Olshaker
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Mass Market Paperback: 432 pages
Publisher: Pocket (July 01 2000)
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Dunblane
I just happen to be in Scotland when I hear about the massacre. It's the morning of Wednesday, March 13, 1996, and I'm in a television studio in Glasgow as part of a promotional tour for my book Mindhunter, at the invitation of our British publisher.

Dunblane
I just happen to be in Scotland when I hear about the massacre. It's the morning of Wednesday, March 13, 1996, and I'm in a television studio in Glasgow as part of a promotional tour for my book Mindhunter, at the invitation of our British publisher.



Book Description

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 minds 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, Theodore Kaczynski, and Timothy McVeigh is gripping, but more importantly, helps us learn how to anticipate potential violent behavior before it's too late.

About the Author

John DouglasJohn Douglas

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.

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Mark Olshaker

Mark Olshaker is a novelist and filmmaker who wrote and produced the Emmy nominated PBS Nova program Mind of a Serial Killer. His acclaimed novels of suspense include Einstein's Brain, Unnatural Caused, Blood Race, and The Edge. He has written and produced numerous documentary films around the United States and the world and won an Emmy in 1994 as the writer of Roman City.

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