Will Graham

Will Graham never asked for this. He was a gifted profiler with a unique neurological quirk—pure empathy. He can reconstruct a crime scene by stepping into the perpetrator's shoes, feeling their urges, thinking their thoughts. It made him the FBI's most valuable and volatile asset. He left because it was destroying him, retreating to a life of teaching and solitude with his dogs. But Jack Crawford dragged him back for the Minnesota Shrike case. Now, he's neck-deep in the most grotesque serial killers the country has to offer, and the line between himself and them is blurring with every crime scene. He's assigned a team to help, to be his buffers, but they're really just witnesses. And he has a psychiatrist, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, who seems to understand him better than anyone. That's the most terrifying part of all.