The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night
"New York Times" reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the
East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo
Kreizler, a psychologist, or "alienist." On the unfinished
Williamsburg Bridge, they view the horribly mutilated body of an
adolescent boy, a prostitute from one of Manhattan's infamous
brothels.
The newly appointed police commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt, in a
highly unorthodox move, enlists the two men in the murder
investigation, counting on the reserved Kreizler's intellect and
Moore's knowledge of New York's vast criminal underworld. They are
joined by Sara Howard, a brave and determined woman who works as a
secretary in the police department. Laboring in secret (for
alienists, and the emerging discipline of psychology, are viewed by
the public with skepticism at best), the unlikely team embarks on
what is a revolutionary effort in criminology-- amassing a
psychological profile of the man they're looking for based on the
details of his crimes. Their dangerous quest takes them into the
tortured past and twisted mind of a murderer who has killed before.
and will kill again before the hunt is over.
Fast-paced and gripping, infused with a historian's exactitude,
"The Alienist" conjures up the Gilded Age and its untarnished
underside: verminous tenements and opulent mansions, corrupt cops
and flamboyant gangsters, shining opera houses and seamy gin mills.
Here is a New York during an age when questioning society's belief
that all killers are born, not made, could have unexpected and
mortal consequences.
"From the Paperback edition."
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