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Start giftingThe Anatomy of Motive
The FBI’s Legendary Mindhunter Explores the Key to Understanding and Catching Violent Criminals
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Joe Barrett
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Length
11 hours 36 minutes
Language
English
In this eagerly anticipated book from the internationally bestselling authors of Mindhunter, Journey into Darkness, and Obsession, legendary crime fighter John Douglas explores the root of all crime—motive.
Every crime is a mystery story with a motive at its heart. Understand the motive and you can solve the mystery. The Anatomy of Motive offers a dramatic, insightful look at the development and evolution of the criminal mind. The famed former chief of the FBI's Investigative Support Unit, Douglas was the pioneer of modern behavioral profiling of serial criminals. Working again with acclaimed novelist, journalist, and filmmaker Mark Olshaker, and using cases from his own fabled career as examples, Douglas takes us further than ever before into the dark corners of the minds of arsonists, hijackers, bombers, poisoners, serial and spree killers, and mass murderers.
John Douglas is a former special agent with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, one of the first criminal profilers, and a criminal psychology writer. After retiring from the FBI, where he headed the elite Investigative Support Unit and was the real-life model for FBI Agent Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs, he helped set up Mindhunters, Inc., with Mark Olshaker, a site that provides information on their writing as well as criminal justice and profiler resources. He and Mark Olshaker coauthored the New York Times bestseller Mindhunter.
Mark Olshaker is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and a New York Times bestselling nonfiction author. His seven books with former FBI special agent and criminal profiling pioneer John Douglas, beginning with Mindhunter, have sold millions of copies and been translated into many languages. Mark is a sought-after speaker and consultant on law enforcement-related issues.
Joe Barrett began his acting career at the age of five in the basement of his family's home in upstate New York. He has gone on to play many stage roles, both on and off-Broadway, and in regional theaters from Los Angeles, Houston, and St. Louis to Washington DC, San Francisco, and Portland, Maine. He has appeared in films and television, both prime time and late night, and in hundreds of television and radio commercials. Joe has narrated over two hundred audiobooks. He has been an Audie Award finalist eight times, and his narration of Gun Church by Reed Farrel Coleman won the 2013 Audie Award for Original Work. AudioFile magazine has granted Joe fourteen Earphones Awards, including for James Salter's All That Is and Donald Katz's Home Fires. Regarding Joe's narration of John Irving's A Prayer For Owen Meany, AudioFile said, "This moving book comes across like a concerto . . . with a soloist-Owen's voice-rising from the background of an orchestral narration." Joe is married to actor Andrea Wright, and together they have four very grown children.