The Alienist
Author(s): Caleb Carr
The internationally bestselling historical thriller, soon to be a Netflix series starring Luke Evans, Dakota Fanning and Daniel Brühl.
Some things never change.
New York City, 1896. Hypocrisy in high places is rife, police corruption commonplace, and a brutal killer is terrorising young male prostitutes.
Unfortunately for Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt, the psychological profiling of murderers is a practice still in its infancy, struggling to make headway against the prejudices of those who prefer the mentally ill - and the 'alienists' who treat them - to be out of sight as well as out of mind.
But as the body count rises, Roosevelt swallows his doubts and turns to the eminent alienist Dr Laszlo Kreizler to put a stop to the bloody murders - giving Kreizler a chance to take him further into the dark heart of criminality, and one step closer to death.
General Information
- :
- : Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- : Sphere
- : 0.368
- : 01 September 2011
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 October 2011
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Caleb Carr
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : en
- : 544
- : FF
More About The Product
Reissue of this ground-breaking historical whodunnit, in which 1890s New York is as much a character as the investigators
"You can smell the fear in the air." --"The New York Times" "Gripping, atmospheric, intelligent, and entertaining." --"USA Today" "From the Paperback edition."
Caleb Carr was born in New England in 1951 and now lives in New York. He was a military historian, teaching at Columbia, before the success of his first novel enabled him to become a full-time writer.