The authors share never-before-revealed details about his profiling process and divulging the strategies used to crack some of his most challenging cases. In this riveting work of true crime, Douglas spotlights four very different criminals he's confronted over the course of his career, and explains how they helped him to put together the puzzle of how psychopaths and predators think.

Taking us inside the interrogation room and demonstrating the unique techniques he uses to understand the workings of the most terrifying and incomprehensible minds, The Killer Across the Table is an unputdownable journey into the darkest reaches of criminal profiling and behavioural science from a man who knows serial killers better than anyone else.

As Douglas says: 'If you want to understand the artist, look at his art.' If you want to understand what makes a murderer, start here.

'John Douglas is the FBI's pioneer and master of investigative profiling' Patricia Cornwell