The legendary FBI criminal profiler and international bestselling
author of Mindhunter and The Killer Across the Table returns with
this timely, relevant book that goes to the heart of extremism and
domestic terrorism, examining in-depth his chilling pursuit of, and
eventual prison confrontation with Joseph Paul Franklin, a White
Nationalist serial killer and one of the most disturbing
psychopaths he has ever encountered. Worshippers stream out of an
Midwestern synagogue after sabbath services, unaware that only a
hundred yards away, an expert marksman and avowed racist,
antisemite and member of the Ku Klux Klan, patiently awaits, his
hunting rifle at the ready. The October 8, 1977 shooting was a
forerunner to the tragedies and divisiveness that plague us today.
John Douglas, the FBI's pioneering, first full-time criminal
profiler, hunted the shooter--a white supremacist named Joseph Paul
Franklin, whose Nazi-inspired beliefs propelled a three-year reign
of terror across the United States, targeting African Americans,
Jews, and interracial couples. In addition, Franklin bombed the
home of Jewish leader Morris Amitay, shot and paralyzed Hustler
magazine publisher Larry Flynt, and seriously wounded civil rights
leader Vernon Jordan. The fugitive supported his murderous spree
robbing banks in five states, from Georgia to Ohio. Douglas and his
writing partner Mark Olshaker return to this disturbing case that
reached the highest levels of the Bureau, which was fearful
Franklin would become a presidential assassin--and haunted him for
years to come as the threat of copycat domestic terrorist killers
increasingly became a reality. Detailing the dogged pursuit of
Franklin that employed profiling, psychology and meticulous
detective work, Douglas and Olshaker relate how the case was a
make-or-break test for the still-experimental behavioral science
unit and revealed a new type of, determined, mission-driven serial
killer whose only motivation was hate. A riveting, cautionary tale
rooted in history that continues to echo today, The Killer's Shadow
is a terrifying and essential exploration of the criminal
personality in the vile grip of extremism and what happens when
rage-filled speech evolves into deadly action and hatred of the
"other is allowed full reign. The Killer's Shadow includes an
8-page color photo insert.
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