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Journey into Darkness

By: John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker
Narrated by: Danny Campbell
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Summary

 New York Times bestselling author of Mindhunter John Douglas reveals more unique cases from his time as head of the FBI’s elite Investigative Support Unit.

In Mindhunter, John Douglas—who headed the FBI’s elite Investigative Support Unit—told the story of his brilliant and terrifying career tracking down some of the most heinous criminals in history. Now, in Journey into Darkness, Douglas profiles vicious serial killers, rapists, and child molesters. He is straightforward, blunt, often irreverent, and outspoken, but takes pains not to glorify any of these murderers. Some of the unique cases Douglas discusses include:

-The Clairemont killer
-The schoolgirl murders
-Richmond’s first serial murderer
-The brutal and sadistic murder of Suzanne Marie Collins
-Polly Klaas’s abduction and murder by Richard Allen Davis
-The tragedy that lead to the creation of Megan’s Law

With Journey into Darkness, Douglas provides more than a glimpse into the minds of serial killers; he demonstrates what a powerful weapon behavioral science has become. Profiling criminals not only helps to capture them, but also helps society understand how these predators work and what can be done to prevent them from striking again. Douglas focuses especially on pedophiles and child abductors, fully explaining what drives them, and how to keep children away from them. As he points out, “The best way to protect your children is to know your enemy.” He includes eight rules for safety, a list of steps parents can take to prevent child abduction and exploitation, tips on how to detect sexual exploitation, basic rules of safety for children, and a chart, based on age, which details the safety skills children should have to protect themselves.

Journey into Darkness continues the perilous trip into the psyche of the serial killer, but also offers a glimmer of hope that profiling may enable law enforcement to see the indicators of a serial killer’s mind and intervene before he kills, or kills again. Crime Crime Fiction Murder Mystery True Crime Exciting Scary
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Not as well written, or performed as "The Killer Across The Table", nor as good as "Mindhunter".

A bit preachy

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A really good book without being gratuitous. I learned a lot from it, especially how to keep myself safe.
Its also great for parents and carers on how to keep your children safe. I would highly recommend it.

Excellent quality, excellent value!

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I have read both this book and the book of Robert Reslers and both are written in an interesting way. well worth a listen not just if your a Mind Hunter fan

really interesting

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So firstly - the narrator sounds like Donald Trump. He’s not a bad narrator at all, and regardless of your political leanings, that’s pretty distracting.

This book is a bit more erratic than his other works - there’s a huge portion about general child safety which isn’t a bad thing but I didn’t buy a parenting book.

The other problem with binging this authors books is there is very similar content between them all, perhaps 25-30% of the things he speaks about he has already covered in other books.

So between the repeat content and the large section on general child safety precautions I’d say only about 40% of this book is new / profiling.

Not as good as his other works

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I am a big fan of this author and have nothing but total respect for what he has achieved. This book however wanders way off script first a lecture on how to raise children then in the following chapter a long monologue of minor detail on the raising of 2 adopted children made it the reading very tedious.

Great book aprt from 2 chapters

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