Lumpy, Semi-Dorky, Slouchy, Smarmy
John Lanchester, 23 August 2001
Author Unknown: On the Trail of Anonymous
by Don Foster.
Macmillan, 340 pp., £14.99, April 2001,0 333 78170 8 Show More
by Don Foster.
Macmillan, 340 pp., £14.99, April 2001,
“... by John Douglas as ‘the father of behavioural profiling’. Douglas is the FBI man who inspired Thomas Harris to invent the character Jack Crawford in the Hannibal Lecter novels, so he should know. This is the psychological portrait Brussel came up with of the Mad Bomber: He’s symmetrically built … neither fat nor skinny … a co-operative worker ... ”