{"id":141398,"date":"2018-04-30T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T14:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=141398"},"modified":"2018-04-30T08:48:57","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T12:48:57","slug":"rachel-reviews-incendiary-by-michael-cannell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=141398","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Reviews: Incendiary by Michael Cannell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"Long before the specter of terrorism haunted the public imagination, a serial bomber stalked the streets of 1950s New York. The race to catch him would give birth to a new science called criminal profiling.<\/i>
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The most interesting chapter of\u00a0Incendiary: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber, and the Invention of Criminal Profiling<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0was its epilogue, when author Michael Cannell finally pulled all of his interweaving threads together to tell a concise ending to his story. In my opinion, he spends far too many words on the Mad Bomber and the NYC police department and too little concretely connecting them to the psychologist who used reverse psychology to catch said bomber. This could have been a great magazine article, stripped of its fat and zeroed in on just how revolutionary a case it was. As is, I got too bored trying to wade through the minutiae to make that connection myself.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Interested in more true crime? These sound much more interesting.<\/span><\/div>\n
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