American John Luther

John Luther is an FBI agent and a man struggling with his own personal demons. Simultaneously brilliant and emotionally impulsive, Luther has made his reputation shining a light where others fear to tread, into the hearts and minds of psychopaths and killers, and the shadowy spaces of his own soul.

He was born and raised in Rochester, New York, the only child of Joseph and Mary Luther. After Luther graduated from high school, he went on to Cornell University. Soon after graduating summa cum laude from Cornell with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, he enlisted in the United States Army. Luther decided to become a military policeman. After completing basic combat training and then advanced individual training at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri, he was assigned to the 89th Military Police Brigade at Fort Hood in Texas. Luther served as an MP in the 720th Military Police Battalion. He later applied to join the Criminal Investigation Command. Upon completion of the Apprentice CID Special Agent course, Luther was assigned to the 1000th Military Police Battalion at Fort Campbell in Kentucky. As a CID special agent he become highly proficient in the field of criminal investigative analysis.

With numerous commendations, Luther left the Army after eight years of distinguished service. He then applied to join the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Before he could join the Bureau, Luther had to go through the FBI application and hiring process, which included a physical fitness test, a background investigation, and a medical examination. After successful completion of the background investigation, he went on to attend the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. Upon graduating from the Academy, Luther was sworn in as a Special Agent and assigned to the New York Field Office as a member of the Criminal Investigative Division. Due to his investigative and criminal profiling experience, he was immediately assigned to the elite Serial Crimes Unit.

Luther is an inspired maker of connections and a whirlwind genius. He is also dazzling, obsessive, possessed - and sometimes dangerous in the violence of his fixations. But Luther has paid a heavy price for his dedication; he has never been able to prevent himself from becoming emotionally involved in his cases and therefore consumed by the darkness of the crimes he deals with. He serves his own idea of a moral order as much as rules and codes of criminal law. For Luther, his profession is a vocation rather than a job and his dedication is both a blessing and a curse for him and all those close to him. However as the intensity of his convictions combine with the violence of his passions, they often provoke the question of whether he is a force for good or a man hell bent on self-destruction. As the stakes get ever higher and more personal, his lonely path has threatened to pull him towards the very edge of temptation. Luther's confidante is his arch-enemy Alice Morgan, a beautiful multiple-murderess who evaded his grasp on his first case with the FBI, and with whom he has become locked in a lethal battle of wits.

Tormented by the darker side of humanity, Special Agent John Luther might just be as dangerous as the depraved criminals he hunts.