A new breed of evil in Old NY

New York, 1886: Decrease Manhattan’s underworld is definitely ruled by a new generation of cold-blooded criminals…Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt fights widespread corruption inside the department’s rates…and a shockingly brutal murder cause an investigation that could change crime-fighting forever.

In the middle of a wintry March night, NY Times reporter John Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, an excellent about The Alienist pioneer in the brand new and much-maligned self-discipline of psychology, the emerging research of society’s ‘alienated’ mentally sick. There they look at the horribly mutilated body of a boy, a prostitute in one of Manhattan’s infamous brothels. Supervised by Commissioner Roosevelt, the newsman and his ‘alienist’ coach embark on a groundbreaking attempt to determine the killer by assembling his mental profile — a dangerous quest that takes them in to the tortured past and twisted mind of the murderer who has wiped out before…and will kill again before the hunt is over.

As abundant with stunning period ambience as Ragtime and Time and Again, and as relentlessly suspenseful as Crimson Dragon or The Silence from the Lambs, The Alienist will take you to a New York that no longer exists — to confront an bad of timeless savagery.