Books by Mark Olshaker and Complete Book Reviews
Mark Olshaker, Author William Morrow & Company $0 (452p) ISBN 978-0-688-05896-8
After an interesting premise and smooth beginning, this medical thriller sinks beneath an unbelievable plot, cardboard characters, clumsy writing and one of the most annoying love stories in years. Ex-Navy SEAL commando Brian Thorpe, ace surgeon at...
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Mark Olshaker, Author, Olshaker Mark, Author, Richard M. Restak, Author Crown Publishing Group (NY) $21 (335p) ISBN 978-0-517-58044-8
In his first novel since Blood Race (1989), Olshaker has dreamed up a fiendishly disturbing medical thriller. Detective Cassandra ``Sandy'' Mansfield of the Washington, D.C., police is investigating a series of ritualistic murders of young women...
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Michael T. Osterholm and Mark Olshaker. Little, Brown, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-0-316-34369-5
Infectious disease remains humankind’s deadliest enemy and the future looks bleak, according to epidemiologist Osterholm and documentarian Olshaker. They lead with a dismal introduction on the threat of epidemics before delivering an absorbing...
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John Douglas, Author, Stephen Singular, Author, Mark Olshaker, Author Pocket Books $7.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-671-52890-4
Douglas, who developed criminal profiling techniques for the FBI, teams up with novelist Olshaker to tell of his 25-year career tracking down serial killers. (Aug.)
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John Douglas and Mark Olshaker. Dey Street, $26.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-291063-9
Douglas, a pioneer in profiling serial killers for the FBI, and longtime cowriter Olshaker (The Anatomy of Motive: The FBI’s Legendary Mindhunter Explores the Key to Understanding and Catching Violent Criminals) provide an eye-opening and chilling...
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John Douglas and Mark Olshaker. Dey Street, $27.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-307444-6
In 1977, Joseph Paul Franklin, the subject of this thrilling true crime account from Douglas and Olshaker (Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit), embarked on a cross-country racist killing spree that claimed at least 15 lives. In...
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John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker. Dey Street, $27.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-307447-7
FBI profiler Douglas and Olshaker (Mindhunter) tell the riveting story of how the FBI, working with local law enforcement officers, cracked the case of a particularly nasty killer. In rural South Carolina in 1985, 17-year-old Shari Smith was...
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