Robert Ressler

Robert Ressler is the main character of this book and the author. As a young man, he did some time in college before joining the military and becoming an MP, that is, militarily police. He was very successful in the military and eventually became the head of several MP departments in Europe and America. Eventually the military allowed him to take graduate courses in criminology at Michigan State to keep him in the service. The lure of the FBI proved too strong and he ended up joining the FBI. After working for several FBI field services, Ressler joined the headquarters of the FBI at Quantico to teach agents. After tiring of teaching the same courses over and over again, Ressler became interested in a project being led by some of his friends that ultimately turned into modern profiling. Ressler eventually took over the project and turned it...