Law and Disorder

The Legendary FBI Profiler’s Relentless Pursuit of Justice

De: Mark Olshaker, John Douglas

Narrado por: Joe Barrett

From the New York Times best-selling authors of Mindhunter - former FBI agent John Douglas and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Mark Olshaker - comes an explosive look at how a high-profile murder case can test the limits of even the most seasoned investigator.

For 25 years, John E. Douglas worked for the FBI, where he headed the elite Investigative Support Unit. The real-life model for FBI Agent Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs, he's had a brilliant and terrifying career, getting inside the minds of notorious murderers and serial killers such as Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, and David Berkowitz (Son of Sam).

Written with long-time collaborator Mark Olshaker, Law and Disorder is Douglas' most provocative and personal book to date. In it, he addresses every law-enforcement professional's worst nightmare: those cases where, for one reason or another, justice was delayed - or even denied.

Through a series of character-driven case histories - from the earliest trials in Salem, Massachusetts, to the bungled trial of Amanda Knox - Douglas shows what happens when the system breaks down and bias, media coverage, and other influences get in the way of a dispassionate pursuit of the evidence. Here also are Douglas’ personal reflections on his ongoing search for the truth, from painful lessons learned early in his career to his controversial findings in the West Memphis Three and Jon Benet Ramsey investigations.

Brimming with procedural detail, Law and Disorder is an eye-opening insider’s account of the exhilaration and frustration that attend the quest for justice.

©2013 Mindhunters, Inc. (P)2013 Blackstone Audio, Inc

kinda redundant...

Listen, I love John Douglas books.. But that face that you spend half your time listening (or reading) to events that have been explored in previous books IN DEPTH, get kind of annoying. I understand that each book is supposed to stand alone. But it kinda gets redundant...

Insightful Book! A new look at some popular high profile cases by a forensic profiler who was hands and knows his stuff.

LOVE

I really love the books by John Douglas!! He and Mark Olshaker work brilliantly together to write books that are smart as well as thought provoking. Many of the cases that are written about in Law and Disorder I only know the basics of, or I only had the media’s point of view (which is often skewed and wrong). The media should tell us the story, not create the story.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves a good in-depth true story about murder and crime.

Not my fav but...

not my favorite from John Douglas but it's intresting to actually hear someone from law enforcement criticize mishandling cases. if wrongful conviction is something ur intrested in its not a bad read.

Couldn't Stop Listening

A very interesting book that I found impossible to stop listening to. How wrong the court of public opinion gets things wrong