John Katzenbach is an American writer, screenwriter, and Edgar Award nominee, which recognizes the best authors of the detective genre; former court reporter in Miami. Now he has 12 novels to his name, several of which have been successfully filmed. The novel “A Special Mindset” is set in the near future. There is rampant violence in the United States, but for a lot of money you can buy yourself the right to live in an artificially created security zone, where crime, according to the authorities, does not and cannot exist. Therefore, when a maniac begins to operate there, brutally killing teenage girls, the best forces are involved in a secret hunt for him, including a specialist in the psychology of serial killers, Professor Geoffrey Clayton. It soon becomes clear that a quarter of a century ago, a certain history teacher was involved in a similar case of the murder of a schoolgirl. True, the case then fell apart, and the teacher, according to rumors, committed suicide. But how to explain the undoubted similarity of the “handwriting” of the killers? Who actually came up with the idea to involve Jeffrey, the son of the late teacher, in the investigation? And from whom did Jeffrey's sister Susan receive the coded message: "I found you"? Who and why started a diabolical game of death with the Claytons? .. “Few writers - masters of the detective genre - understand the special mindset of a criminal with the insight of John Katzenbach” (People).