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New York, 3 mars 1896, deux heures du matin. John Moore Schuyler, jeune chroniqueur criminel au New York Times, est appelé d'urgence au bord de l'East River par son vieil ami Uszlo Kreizler. Ce dernier, précurseur brillant de ce qui est aujourd'hui appelé la psychologie - un aliéniste selon le vocabulaire de l'époque -, a découvert le corps horriblement mutilé d'un jeune garçon qui travaillait dans l'un des bordels sordides des quartiers pauvres de New York. Il n'est pas le premier et ne sera pas le dernier... Ce qui laisse parfaitement indifférentes les forces de l'ordre (les victimes étant pauvres et d'origine étrangère) pique la compassion, mais surtout la curiosité professionnelle, de Kreizler : quel genre d'être humain est capable de commettre de tels crimes, et pour quelle raison ? Ayant obtenu le soutien de Théodore Roosevelt, le futur président des Etats-Unis, alors préfet de la police de New York et une vieille connaissance de Kreizler et de Moore, les deux amis ouvrent leur enquête. Leur approche est inhabituelle, pour le moins : en étudiant ces crimes, ils pensent pouvoir brosser le portrait psychologique de l'assassin, imaginer son enfance, ses troubles, et finalement le devancer dans ses projets meurtriers. En cela, ils sont assistés par deux détectives juifs, spécialistes de méthodes criminalistes révolutionnaires comme la dactyloscopie et l'anthropométrie judiciaire, et par une jeune femme ambitieuse qui rêve d'être la première femme officier de police. La petite équipe incongrue suscite l'intérêt, et, très rapidement, la réaction violente d'un groupe de personnes qui entendent utiliser à leurs fins la série de meurtres. Le tueur frappera de nouveau. Une course de vitesse s'engage, où se confondent chasseur et proie...
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Alienist: Number 1 in Series
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Trad. de : "The alienist."
Autre tirage : 2000, 2004.
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The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or "alienist." On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy, a prostitute from one of Manhattan's infamous brothels. The newly appointed police commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt, in a highly unorthodox move, enlists the two men in the murder investigation, counting on the reserved Kreizler's intellect and Moore's knowledge of New York's vast criminal underworld. They are joined by Sara Howard, a brave and determined woman who works as a secretary in the police department. Laboring in secret (for alienists, and the emerging discipline of psychology, are viewed by the public with skepticism at best), the unlikely team embarks on what is a revolutionary effort in criminology-- amassing a psychological profile of the man they're looking for based on the details of his crimes. Their dangerous quest takes them into the tortured past and twisted mind of a murderer who has killed before. and will kill again before the hunt is over. Fast-paced and gripping, infused with a historian's exactitude, The Alienist conjures up the Gilded Age and its untarnished underside: verminous tenements and opulent mansions, corrupt cops and flamboyant gangsters, shining opera houses and seamy gin mills. Here is a New York during an age when questioning society's belief that all killers are born, not made, could have unexpected and mortal consequences.From the Paperback edition.
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