Alienist, The

To Catch a Predator Author: Caleb Carr It is 1896, New York, a world teaming with opulence and severe oppression. The seedy underbelly of society is thriving: brothels are teaming, criminal organizations and crime lords run rampant, immigrants live in sordid tenements, and everything that seems innocent is underpinned by the money and political influence of the malevolent. Worse yet, a sadistic killer is on the loose, a man who targets young boys working out of brothels and leaves them carved open, mutilated and abused. He has struck before, and he will strike again. But these are forgotten boys; they come [...]