# The Alienist

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- Book: [The Alienist](https://www.bookquiver.com/caleb-carr/the-alienist) ([The Alienist.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/caleb-carr/the-alienist.md))
- Authors: [Caleb Carr](https://www.bookquiver.com/caleb-carr)
- Publisher: Sphere
- ISBN: 978-07-5154-722-1
- Published: 2011-09-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The internationally bestselling historical thriller, soon to be a Netflix series starring Luke Evans, Dakota Fanning and Daniel Brühl. Some things never change. New York City, 1896. Hypocrisy in high places is rife, police corruption commonplace, and a brutal killer is terrorising young male prostitutes. Unfortunately for Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt, the psychological profiling of murderers is a practice still in its infancy, struggling to make headway against the prejudices of those who prefer the mentally ill - and the 'alienists' who treat them - to be out of sight as well as out of mind. But as the body count rises, Roosevelt swallows his doubts and turns to the eminent alienist Dr Laszlo Kreizler to put a stop to the bloody murders - giving Kreizler a chance to take him further into the dark heart of criminality, and one step closer to death.