Character Profile: Meet Jefferson Winter, James Carol's ex FBI profiler

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With James Carol's new Jefferson Winter thriller, The Quiet Man, due for release on 2nd May 2017, I thought it would be timely to focus on Carol's protagonist, Jefferson Winter, as a character.

Jefferson Winter's Background

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Winter has one of the  most unusual backgrounds I've come across in a protagonist, and, I have to admit, it is his back story that piques my interest the most.  With a serial killer father, Winter has chosen a diametrically opposite career path as a Behavioural Analyst with the FBI.  However, as the series begins, Winter faces an epiphany and turns his back on the restrictions of the FBI, choosing instead to lead a nomadic lifestyle touring the world as a freelance profiler working serial killer cases.

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What makes him such an enduring  

character?

Winter is clearly a conflicted character, (not surprising really, after discovering that your father kidnapped young girls and set them loose in the woods near his home in order to hunt them down.) It is this vulnerability that draws the reader in.  Despite his, often gleeful, mental superiority and tendency to keep his own counsel by excluding his fellow detectives, his brilliance and ability to see inside the mind of

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the killer are compelling.  

But it isn't his brilliance alone that makes him a stand out character.  It is also his immense likability.  His eccentricities and focus are believably captivating.  Who wouldn't love a profiler who veers away from dark suits and sunglasses choosing instead T-shirts emblazened with a range of Rock stars from The Doors , to The Beatles, to The Who? How could we not admire a man who plays jazz and Mozart on the piano with equal aplomb and who uses Mozart's concertos to calm and focus

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his brain during the most horrific of investigations? Then there's his impeccable taste in whisky -  a man after my own heart, indeed.  Lastly, of course we can't ignore his shot of prematurely white hair that lends him a gravitas belied by his youth (he's only in his thirties)

Jefferson Winter's Journey

What I love about James Carol's Winter books is that not only

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do we get the contemporary story of Jefferson Winter as an adult, but through his novellas we are able to learn more about Winter's development from a precocious, brilliant adolescence coming to terms with his mother's death and his father's crimes with the help of FBI profiler and mentor Yoko Tanaka