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A long time before the specter of terrorism haunted the public thoughts, a serial bomber stalked the avenues of 1950s New York. The contest to get him would give delivery to a new science called unlawful profiling. Grand Central, Penn Train station, Radio City Music Hall - for nearly two decades, no place was safe from the man who signed his anonymous words "FP" and left his lethal devices in cellphone booths, storage area lockers, even tucked in to the plush chairs of concert halls. His patients were left cruelly maimed. Tabloids called him "the greatest individual menace NEW YORK ever confronted." In desperation, Law enforcement Captain Howard Finney looked for the help of just a little known psychiatrist, Dr. Wayne Brussel, whose expertise was the unlawful mind. Examining offense scene evidence and the strange wording in the bomber's words, he put together a portrait of the think down to the lower of his jacket. But how to put a name to the explanation? Seymour Berkson - a attractive New York socialite, protégé of William Randolph Hearst, and publisher of the tabloid The Journal-American - signed up with in pursuit of the Mad Bomber. The three men hatched a brilliant scheme to get him at his own game. Jointly they would get a monster and change the face of American law enforcement. This program includes a prologue read by the author.
