The Mystery of the Lone Wolf Killer: Anders Behring Breivik and the Threat of Terror in Plain Sight Paperback – March 14, 2017

Clarity and insight are the hallmarks of Unnis' important and persuasive book. Through careful consideration, seriousness of purpose and compassion, we look with Unni into this most difficult of realities. And we do not fear.

Certainly the most important book I will read this year, this is the tale of a madman caught between the extreme currents of Europe in the 21st century: multiculturalism, xenophobia & the Far Right, and Islamic Radicalism. Somewhere along the way, Anders Breivik decides that the path to glory and the salvation of Norway lies in the mass murder of dozens of children at a youth camp, along with the accompanying bombing of a federal building. Unni Turretini, a powerful author with a brilliant mind, sets the stage for this event with extraordinary detail, covering everything from the anti-individual educational philosophy of Norway, to attachment theory, to the political currents that fuels Behring's madness, to Arab and Muslim immigration and Europe's woeful failure to both accommodate and protect. She does not shy away from controversial opinions, nor does she judge her subject without giving him a fair hearing, as well as a certain measure of empathy, a difficult but essential quality for any writer. At last, we get to the trial, and its depiction and the conclusions the author derives from them are guaranteed to keep the reader's attention. As a fellow author, all I can say is: Chapeaux!

I do not review very often nor take Audible up on their return policy. On this book I did both.I will admit I did not listen (audio version) to all of it, nor in fact more than one hour of it.He starts off with 3 case studies, Anders Behring Breivik as a lone wolf killer, Timothy Mcveigh , and then the Boston Bombing by the brothers,Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev.The later is hardly a ''lone wolf'' as they were a pair, but what put me off straight away other than the monotone narration was he mentioned several times they (all 3) had no ideology motive for the killings. Which I assume would mold into his thesis on how hard it is to spot such people.The brothers were radical Isalmists , this point has been proven already, Timothy Mcveigh was politically motivated and fair enough you could use him in this context and of course Breivik was home grown also and motivated by hate.With all that is going on in the world today, and some Muslims in the spotlight trying to have the word Islam removed from reporting on attacks in the name of Islam, I was surprised straight away in this book where he sort of attempts to do the same. A duo is not a lone wolf attack, it is planned between a pair and possibly more. In the name of Islam coming from another country also is not home grown, through in the monotone narration and it is the third time in approx 200 audio books I turned it off and returned it.

I'm an Investigation Discovery ID channel addict and this topic intrigues me. The author does a really good job of delineating the evolution of the killers themselves. And I was particularly surprised at and interested in the similarities between the lone wolf killers in Norway and US, and the differences between Norway's and the American approaches in dealing with this seriously rising issue. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who likes true crime, criminal psychology, or even the roles that politics and society play in cultivating the killers themselves.

Very insightful and spooky. A good read concerning what drives these Lone Wolf Killers to murder. We as a society are seeing this more and more.

An insightful, and yet disturbing look into the factors that make Anders Breivik plan and implement his plan to wound and murder so many innocents on Utoya Island and in Oslo. Unsettling and compelling, Unni Turrettini delves into the societal factors that helped create such a monster.

This book makes clear that if the lone-wolf killings in the U.S. and all over the world are to stop, there must be a new way to identify killers with no paper trail. The author has done a great deal of research to create this thoughtful, well-written, and somehow still hopeful book.

Great read!! Such a difficult subject, but so important to our society. The chaotic world in which we live in must learn to understand and identify its weaknesses to avoid future attacks.

Shockingly badly written and editedRepetitive, constantly making comparisons to other entirely unrelated killers and killingsEnds with a near eulogy on how more lax gun laws would be a good thing world wide as killers wouldn't use guns if the general public could also be tooled upShe has so many mistakes of fact in the book but Dunblane being in Australia is unbelievableDo yourself a favour and read something , anything else.