Alienist
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...
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
