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Title
The alienist
The alienist
Author
Caleb Carr
Caleb Carr
format
Paperback
Paperback
Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Language
English
English
UK Publication Date
20061024
20061024
Description
Soon to be a TNT original series
New York Times Bestseller -- "A high-spirited, charged-up, and unfailingly smart thriller." - Los Angeles Times
"Caleb Carr's rich period thriller takes us back to a moment in history when the modern idea of the serial killer became available to us... [and] tracks the efforts of a team of farsighted investigators working frantically to solve a string of hideous murders... Absorbing... suspenseful... gratifying." -The Detroit News
Fast-paced and gripping, infused with a historian's exactitude,The Alienistconjures up the Gilded Age and its untarnished underside: verminous tenements and opulent mansions, corrupt cops and flamboyant gangsters, shining opera houses and seamy gin mills. Here is a New York during an age when questioning society's belief that all killers are born, not made, could have unexpected and mortal consequences.
The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or "alienist." On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy, a prostitute from one of Manhattan's infamous brothels.
Praise for The Alienist:
"[A] delicious premise... Its setting and characterizations are much more sophisticated than run-of-the-mill thrillers that line the shelves in bookstores." - The Washington Post Book World
"The method of the hunt and the disparate team of hunters lift the tale beyond the level of a good thriller - way beyond... A remarkable combination of historical novel and psychological thriller." - The Buffalo News
"Remarkable... The reader is taken on a whirlwind tour of the Gilded Age metropolis, climbing up tenament stairs, scrambling across rooftops, and witnessing midnight autopsies... A breathtaking, finely crafted mystery." - Richmond Times-Dispatch
New York Times Bestseller -- "A high-spirited, charged-up, and unfailingly smart thriller." - Los Angeles Times
"Caleb Carr's rich period thriller takes us back to a moment in history when the modern idea of the serial killer became available to us... [and] tracks the efforts of a team of farsighted investigators working frantically to solve a string of hideous murders... Absorbing... suspenseful... gratifying." -The Detroit News
Fast-paced and gripping, infused with a historian's exactitude,The Alienistconjures up the Gilded Age and its untarnished underside: verminous tenements and opulent mansions, corrupt cops and flamboyant gangsters, shining opera houses and seamy gin mills. Here is a New York during an age when questioning society's belief that all killers are born, not made, could have unexpected and mortal consequences.
The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or "alienist." On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy, a prostitute from one of Manhattan's infamous brothels.
Praise for The Alienist:
"[A] delicious premise... Its setting and characterizations are much more sophisticated than run-of-the-mill thrillers that line the shelves in bookstores." - The Washington Post Book World
"The method of the hunt and the disparate team of hunters lift the tale beyond the level of a good thriller - way beyond... A remarkable combination of historical novel and psychological thriller." - The Buffalo News
"Remarkable... The reader is taken on a whirlwind tour of the Gilded Age metropolis, climbing up tenament stairs, scrambling across rooftops, and witnessing midnight autopsies... A breathtaking, finely crafted mystery." - Richmond Times-Dispatch
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