Incendiary: the psychiatrist, the mad bomber and the invention of criminal profiling

✍ Scribed by Michael Cannell

• Book ID: 100054852
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press;Minotaur Books
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 1020 KB
• Edition: First Minotaur Books paperback edition
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1250182360

✦ Synopsis

Long before the specter of terrorism haunted the public imagination, a serial bomber stalked the streets of 1950s New York. The race to catch him would give birth to a new science called criminal profiling.

Grand Central, Penn Station, Radio City Music Hall--for almost two decades, no place was safe from the man who signed his anonymous letters "FP" and left his lethal devices in phone booths, storage lockers, even tucked into the plush seats of movie theaters. His victims were left cruelly maimed. Tabloids called him "the greatest individual menace New York City ever faced."

In desperation, Police Captain Howard Finney sought the help of a little known psychiatrist, Dr. James Brussel, whose expertise was the criminal mind. Examining crime scene evidence and the strange wording in the bomber's letters, he compiled a portrait of the suspect down to the cut of his jacket. But how to put a name to the description? Seymour Berkson--a handsome New York...