The Alienist Audiobook (Free)

A new breed of bad in Old New York

NY, 1886: Decrease Manhattan’s underworld is usually ruled by a fresh generation of cold-blooded criminals…Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt fights widespread corruption within the department’s rates…and a shockingly brutal murder sets off a study that could change crime-fighting forever.

In the center of a wintry March night, New York Times reporter John Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a brilliant about The Alienist pioneer in the brand new and much-maligned self-discipline of mindset, the emerging study of society’s ‘alienated’ mentally ill. There they view the horribly mutilated body of a young son, a prostitute from one of Manhattan’s infamous brothels. Supervised by Commissioner Roosevelt, the newsman and his ‘alienist’ mentor embark on a groundbreaking attempt to recognize the killer by assembling his psychological profile — a dangerous quest that will take them in to the tortured previous and twisted brain of a murderer that has killed before…and will kill again before the hunt has ended.

As abundant with brilliant period ambience as Ragtime and Over and over, so that as relentlessly suspenseful as Red Dragon or The Silence of the Lambs, The Alienist will need you to a fresh York that no more exists — to confront an bad of timeless savagery.