The Alienist (TNT Tie-in Edition): A Novel

The year is 1896. The city is new york. Newspaper reporter john schuyler moore is summoned by his friend dr. Laszlo kreizler--a psychologist, or alienist--to view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy abandoned on the unfinished williamsburg bridge. From there the two embark on a revolutionary effort in criminology: creating a psychological profile of the perpetrator based on the details of his crimes. Their dangerous quest takes them into the tortured past and twisted mind of a murderer who will kill again before their hunt is over--from the publisher.

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks