The Alienist

Author: Caleb Carr

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  • : 22.99 AUD
  • : 9780751547221
  • : Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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  • : September 2011
  • : 196mm X 127mm X 35mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 22.99
  • : October 2011
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  • : Laszlo Kreizler and John Schuyler Moore Ser.
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Description

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.

Promotion info

Reissue of this ground-breaking historical whodunnit, in which 1890s New York is as much a character as the investigators

Reviews

"You can smell the fear in the air." --"The New York Times" "Gripping, atmospheric, intelligent, and entertaining." --"USA Today" "From the Paperback edition."

Author description

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.