Order of John E. Douglas Books

John E. Douglas is an American writer known for his true crime non-fiction and crime thriller novels. A former FBI agent, he was among the first criminal profilers. Douglas began his career as a sniper and later became a hostage negotiator. He was subsequently assigned to the Behavioral Science Unit, where he taught hostage negotiation and criminal psychology. He initiated and led the Criminal Profiling Program at the FBI, traveling across the country to interview serial killers, assassins, and violent sex offenders, including David Berkowitz, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Charles Manson, Edmund Kemper, James Earl Ray, Sirhan Sirhan, Richard Speck, and Gary Ridgway, among others. He has inspired several fictional characters, such as Jack Crawford in Thomas Harris's The Silence of the Lambs and Holden Ford in the Netflix series Mindhunter. Douglas published his first book, Mindhunter, in 1995. Below is a list of his books in the order of their initial release: