<b><b><i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER - NOW A TNT ORIGINAL SERIES - </b>"A first-rate tale of crime and punishment that will keep readers guessing until the final pages."--<i>Entertainment Weekly</i></b> <p/> <b>"Caleb Carr's rich period thriller takes us back to the moment in history when the modern idea of the serial killer became available to us."--<i>The Detroit News</i></b> <p/>When <i>The Alienist</i> was first published in 1994, it was a major phenomenon, spending six months on the <i>New York Times</i> bestseller list, receiving critical acclaim, and selling millions of copies. This modern classic continues to be a touchstone of historical suspense fiction for readers everywhere. <p/>The year is 1896. The city is New York. Newspaper reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned by his friend Dr. Laszlo Kreizler--a psychologist, or "alienist"--to view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy abandoned on the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge. From there the two embark on a revolutionary effort in criminology: creating a psychological profile of the perpetrator based on the details of his crimes. Their dangerous quest takes them into the tortured past and twisted mind of a murderer who will kill again before their hunt is over. <p/> Fast-paced and riveting, infused with historical detail, <i>The Alienist</i> conjures up Gilded Age New York, with its tenements and mansions, corrupt cops and flamboyant gangsters, shining opera houses and seamy gin mills. It is an age in