"The \;FBI's pioneer of criminal profi ling\, former special agent John Douglas\, has studied and interviewed man y of America's most notorious \;killers \;-- including Charles Man son\, "Son of Sam \;Killer" David Berkowitz\, and "BTK Strangler" Denn is Rader -- trained FBI agents and investigators around and \;the \;world\, and helped educate \;the \;country about these deadly pr edators and how they operate\, and has become a legend in popular culture\ , fictionalized in "The \;Silence of \;the \;Lambs" and \; the \;hit television shows "Criminal Minds" and "Mindhunter." Twenty y ears after his famous memoir\, \;the \;man who literally wrote&nbs p\;the \;book on FBI criminal profiling opens his case files once agai n. In this riveting work of true crime\, he spotlights four of \;the&n bsp\;most diabolical criminals he's confronted\, interviewed and learned f rom. Going deep into each man's life and crimes\, he outlines \;the&nb sp\;factors that led them to murder and how he used his interrogation skil ls to expose their means\, motives\, and true evil. Like \;the \;h it Netflix show\, "The \;Killer \;Across \;the \;Table" is centered around Douglas' unique interrogation and profiling process. With his longtime collaborator Mark Olshaker\, Douglas recounts \;the \;chilling encounters with these four \;killers \;as he experience d them -- revealing for \;the \;first time his profile methods in detail. Going step by step through his interviews\, Douglas explains how h e connects each \;killer's \;crimes to \;the \;specific co nversation\, and contrasts these encounters with those of other deadly cri minals to show what he learns from each one. In \;the \;process\, he returns to other famous cases\, \;killers \;and interviews that have shaped his career\, describing how \;the \;knowledge he gain ed from those exchanges helped prepare him for these. A glimpse into \ ;the \;mind of a man who has pierced \;the \;heart of human da rkness\, "The \;Killer \;Across \;the \;Table" unlocks&nbs p\;the \;ultimate mystery of depravity and \;the \;techniques and approaches that have countered evil in \;the \;name of justice ."
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