cover.jpg
[Hide] (37.6KB, 320x500) Currently reading this. I'm about 6 chapters in, and it's fascinating. This is a book published in the 90s about one of the first FBI profilers and how they started using psychology to catch serial killers and other level 99 criminals
My thoughts so far is that this guy is pretty smart for a fed (It's written in the first person from the guy, John Douglas' perspective). Considering there's another guy credited as the author, I'm just guessing that he's the "real writer" cleaning up the prose, which is why Douglas sounds like a professional author despite serving in the FBI all those years.
In the book, he detours from all the gritty stuff early on to go into his personal life in detail. He's basically the embodiment of the chad meme: football star, flunked out of college, joined the air force, got married, then finally got recruited to the fbi, still in his 20s, and then he ended up going back to school to get a masters(!) in behavorial science. I sense a bit of virtue signaling in the way he describes himself and his commitment to his job, and I think there's one part that really illustrates that.
He's depicted as this sensitive, almost intellectual guy while also being the perfect god-chad football star and husband, but there's a part early on where he mentions an anecdote about how him and his wife wanted to talk to a priest before getting married because he was protestant and she was Catholic. In this part, Douglas recounts how the priest asked how they initially meant, and to fuck with him, he tells the priest that they met at a titty bar and his wife could spin the nipple tassles in opposite directions until one fell off in his general direction, so he asked her out. This is obviously not true, but I found this part interesting for two reasons: The joke seemed pretty crass for the sensitive, almost bookish guy he's been depicted as thus far. I think this was a moment we got to see the "real" glowkpop fan side of him, unintentionally. I bet he's a lot more like that IRL.
Anyway, I guess my point is the FBI aren't these all-knowing, all-seeing guys like they want you to believe. They're basically supercops, and police are retarded. Still, this Douglas guy seems pretty smart compared to other cops, I've only checked out a couple of interviews with him, and maybe he is a decent guy, but whatever. The book is interesting, check it out
P.S. Ashley, why are epubs not allowed? I was going to post the ebook here