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Title: Predictable and Uninventive
Review: In this highly touted collaboration between author Mark Olshaker and former FBI profiler John Douglas, the storyline seems secondary to the ruminations of a former career-focused criminologist. While the information that the authors impart in telling this story is somewhat engaging, the language used felt flat and unimaginative. Even the emotional makeup of the lead characters, Jake Donovan and his supporting crew, seemed as if they were filtered through the same electronic surveillance devices used by the Agency in gathering evidence. Had the story been told with more dynamic flair for the material, it would not have resembled a walk through a garden papered with cut-out impressions of real flowers. The ideas were intriguing, but not enough to carry the idea through to a satisfying end. It is as if this book exists primarily to cash in on the popularity of the science of profiling, as done so well in "The Silence of the Lambs".
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