Mark Olshaker

Mark Olshaker is an American author from Washington, D.C., born in 1951, who frequently writes with former FBI agent John E. Douglas about criminal and investigative psychology. Together they wrote Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit, which became the Netflix series Mindhunter in 2017, and Cases That Haunt Us, which revisits famous cases that still resist solution. Olshaker also worked with public health scientist Michael Osterholm on Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs, a book about how poorly prepared medicine is for the next pandemic.