Running Amok
inside the mind of the lone mass killer
$67.15
- Hardcover
240 pages
- Release Date
2 October 2025
Summary
Running Amok: Unmasking the Psychology of Lone Mass Killers
What drives someone to commit the unthinkable?
Austin 1966. Dunblane 1996. Port Arthur 1996. Utøya 2011.
In this deeply insightful account, pre-eminent forensic psychiatrist Paul E. Mullen examines the complex psychology behind lone mass killers. With unflinching clarity, he burrows into the minds of these damaged individuals, drawing on his decades of forensic work assessing mass m…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781917569002 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1917569009 |
| Author: | Paul Mullen |
| Publisher: | Extraordinary Books |
| Imprint: | Extraordinary Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 2 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 400g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm x 18mm |
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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 Mullen
Paul E. Mullen is a world authority on lone mass killers and stalking, unparallelled in his experience of assessing single-perpetrator mass-murder cases. 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 co-authored four books on forensic psychiatry, including a leading textbook on stalking.
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