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Unlocking the minds of mass murderers: understanding the unthinkable.
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Running Amok

Inside the Mind of the Lone Mass Killer

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  • Paperback

    240 pages

  • Release Date

    30 September 2025

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Summary

Port Arthur 1996. Dunblane 1996. Utøya 2011. Christchurch 2019. Lewiston 2023.

What drives someone to commit the unthinkable? In Running Amok, forensic psychiatrist Paul E. Mullen burrows into the minds of mass murderers to learn how and why they become spectres haunting modern communities.

Drawing on decades of experience assessing killers such as the perpetrator of the 1996 Port Arthur massacre in Australia, Mullen examines the key forces that unite them: o…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781917569224
ISBN-10:191756922X
Author:Paul E. Mullen
Publisher:Extraordinary Books
Imprint:Extraordinary Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:240
Release Date:30 September 2025
Weight:302g
Dimensions:35mm x 207mm x 267mm
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What They're Saying

Critics Review

‘A devastating compendium of mass killings… Mullen wants us to take seriously the threats made by miserable obsessives.’

– The Telegraph

‘A fascinating book… Mullen’s analysis of the killer’s psychology is enlightening.’ – The Spectator

About The Author

Paul E. Mullen

Paul E. Mullen is a world authority on lone wolf mass killers and stalking. He is Professor Emeritus at Monash University, and has held prominent posts at the Institute of Psychiatry in London and the Victorian Institute of Forensic Psychiatry in Australia. He has published more than 200 journal articles and co-authored four books on forensic psychiatry, including a leading textbook on stalking that was awarded the American Psychiatric Association’s Guttmacher Prize.

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