Author Colin Wilson takes us along on the trail of dozens of serial killers.

Just what does it take to track down a serial killer? Serial murders make up less than one-quarter of murders in the United States each year, yet they cast a larger-than-life shadow over the human psyche. These killers are particularly dangerous, because they tend to kill indiscriminately and have no compunction about doing so again and again. In ManHunt: A Study in Detection: Tracking Serial Killers, Colin Wilson takes us along on the trail of dozens of serial killers. ManHunt is not so much about the killers themselves but the detectives who track them down. ManHunt describes in detail the work of forensic detectives and shows how psychological profiling is used to read the “personality fingerprints” left at a crime scene. ManHunt fascinates its readers by placing less emphasis on the horrors of the crimes and more on the techniques of the individuals who catch serial murderers. ManHunt takes us to the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, the very place where the term “serial killer” was coined in the late 1970s by one of its agents.

About the Author

Colin Wilson has written dozens of books and hundreds of articles on a variety of subjects, most particularly philosophy, crime, literary criticism, fiction, and the occult. His books include Encyclopedia of Murder (1961), Order of Assassins: The Psychology of Murder (1972), A Criminal History of Mankind (1984), Jack the Ripper (1987), The Mammoth Book of True Crime (1988), Written in Blood: A History of Forensic Detection (1989), Serial Killers (1990), and A Plague of Murder (1995). He initially gained fame in 1956, at the age of 24, when he wrote The Outsider,one of the seminal works of the British “angry young man” movement. He lives in England.