Mindhunter: FBI's Special Department for Serial Murder Investigations

This book, which has withstood numerous reprints and spawned an entire genre in crime films and TV series, starting with the famous "The Silence of the Lambs," could be called a classic—if not for the light language and indomitable sense of humor of its creators. The world's first professional profiler, FBI Special Agent John Douglas, along with his constant co-author, journalist Mark Olshaker, masterfully alternates amusing anecdotes from his own life and chilling details of serial murders, telling the story of the development of behavioral analysis and its application to the search for monsters in human form.
The edition is supplemented with a comprehensive preface by the authors, written twenty years after the first publication of "Mindhunter."