内容简介

　　充满传奇色彩的FBI犯罪心理画像师、《纽约时报》畅销书作家、Netflix热播美剧《心理神探》原著作者约翰•道格拉斯在这本全新力作《坐在我对面的杀手》一书中再度为读者带来四宗复杂神秘的案件，向人们展示他从未披露的心理画像细节，以及与犯罪嫌疑人之间精彩纷呈的面对面心理对决。

　　作为FBI犯罪心理画像的创始人，约翰•道格拉斯曾研究和访问过包括查理•曼森、“山姆之子”大卫•伯科威茨和“BTK虐杀者”丹尼斯•雷德等在内的众多美国臭名昭著的连环杀手，深入研究他们的犯罪心理动机及行为。在畅销自传作品《心理神探》出版二十年后，道格拉斯推出的这部新作聚焦自己职业生涯中真实经历并亲自参与访谈和研究的四宗案件。

　　《坐在我对面的杀手》是一本关于暴力罪犯思维方式的书。研究暴力罪犯的思维方式，这便是道格拉斯二十五年来作为联邦调查局特工、心理画像师和刑事犯罪调查分析师的基石，也是他从联邦调查局退休后所做的事情。

　　谈话，是一切之源，是心理画像的开始，是后来所有事情的起点。心理画像师获得的所有知识、得出的所有结论、创建的《犯罪分类手册》、协助抓获并起诉的凶手，一切都是从坐在杀手对面询问他们的生活开始的。询问的目的是了解是什么驱使他们剥夺了另一个人或者许多人的生命。书中提及的四个杀手各不相同，每个人都有自己独特的作案手法、动机以及心理构造。他们的受害者有的只有一人，而有的则多达近百人。他们之间的反差耐人寻味且引人注目。通过一系列这样的访谈，道格拉斯和同事们最终形成了一套缜密的分析方法，由此将罪行与罪犯在犯罪当下的真实想法联系起来，进而得以回答一个古老的问题：“什么样的人才能做出这样的事情来？”

　　作者简介

　　约翰•道格拉斯：美国联邦调查局行为科学调查支援科创建人，任职联邦调查专员25年，是美国顶尖的罪犯人格画像专家，现代犯罪调查分析的开创者，被誉为“美国的现代福尔摩斯”。他同时也是《沉默的羔羊》《汉尼拔》等犯罪电影的专家顾问；著有《心理神探》《顶级悬案》《坐在我对面的杀手》《杀手的影子》等多部作品。

　　马克•奥尔谢克：美国著名电影制片人，曾任多部纪录片的导演及编剧，1994年凭《罗马城》一片获艾美奖最佳编剧奖。著有《爱因斯坦的大脑》《非自然死亡》《血族》等多部极受好评的悬疑小说。

Content introduction

John Douglas, the legendary FBI criminal profilist, New York Times bestselling author, and author of Netflix's hit TV series, returns to four complex and mysterious cases in his new book, The Killer Who Sat across from Me, and reveals never-before-revealed details of his psychological portrait. And the exciting face-to-face psychological confrontation with the criminal suspect.

As the founder of the FBI Criminal Mind Portrait, John Douglas has studied and interviewed many of America's most notorious serial killers, including Charlie Manson, David "Son of Sam" Berkowitz, and Dennis Rader "BTK murderer," to delve into their criminal psychological motivations and behaviors. Twenty years after the publication of his best-selling autobiography Psych, Douglas focuses on four cases that he personally interviewed and researched over the course of his career.

The Killer Who Sat Across from Me is a book about the way violent criminals think. Studying the mind of violent criminals has been the cornerstone of Douglass's 25 years as an FBI agent, psychographer and criminal investigative analyst, and what he has done since retiring from the bureau.

The conversation is the source of everything, the beginning of the mental portrait, the beginning of everything that follows. All the knowledge the psychographers have gained, all the conclusions they have drawn, the catalogues they have created, the killers they have helped to catch and prosecute, all began by sitting across from the killers and asking them about their lives. The purpose of the inquiry is to understand what drove them to deprive another person or many people of their life. The four killers mentioned in the book are different, each with their own unique modus operandi, motives, and psychological makeup. Some of their victims were just one, while others were as many as 100. The contrast between them is intriguing and striking. Through a series of such interviews, Douglas and his colleagues eventually developed a rigorous analysis that linked the crime to what the offender was really thinking at the time of the crime, and thus answered the age-old question: "What kind of person would do something like this?"

About the author

John Douglas: The founder of the Behavioral Science Investigation Support Section of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, serving as a federal investigator for 25 years, is the top criminal personality portrait expert in the United States, the pioneer of modern criminal investigation and analysis, known as "the modern Sherlock Holmes of the United States". He is also an expert consultant on crime films such as The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal; He is the author of "Psych", "Top Cold cases", "The Killer Sitting across from Me", "The Shadow of the Killer" and many other works.

Mark Olsek: American film producer, director and screenwriter of several documentaries, won an Emmy Award for Best screenplay in 1994 for "The City of Rome". The author of "Einstein's Brain", "Unnatural Death", "The Blood" and many other highly acclaimed mystery novels.