The Apostle (Carson Ryder) - Softcover

Kerley, J A

Softcover

ISBN 10: 000749369X ISBN 13: 9780007493692

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2014

Synopsis

The Reverend Honus Schrum, a nationally renowned minister and owner of a broadcasting empire, tells the media he has come home to Key West to die. Meanwhile, Detective Carson Ryder is investigating the ritualistic murders of young women with chequered pasts, discovering the killings have religious overtones. Simultaneously, a newly retired Harry Nautilus takes a job as a driver/bodyguard for Richard Owsley, an ambitious pastor in Mobile. They come to Florida, where Owsley meets with Schrum and is enlisted to complete a special and mysterious 'project' Schrum has promised a billionaire benefactor.

About this title

About the Author:

JACK KERLEYspent years as an advertising agency writer and producer before his wife demanded he quit work and write a novel, which he thought a fine idea. The result wasThe Hundredth Man, the first in the Carson Ryder series. An avid angler, canoeist and hiker, Kerley has traveled extensively throughout the South, especially coastal regions such as Mobile, Alabama, the setting for many of his novels, and the Florida Keys. He has a cabin in the Kentucky mountains, which appeared as a setting inBuried Alive. He lives in Newport, Kentucky, where he enjoys sitting on the levee and watching the barges rumble up and down the Ohio River.

Review:

Praise for the Carson Ryder series: 'Kerley will truly scare the pants off his readers. This one's another winner from a writer moving towards the top of the thriller heap' Publishers Weekly 'A fascinating and frightening take on the genre' Independent on Sunday 'A chilling journey into a pitch-black mind' Michael Marshall, author of The Straw Men trilogy

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 000749369X
• ISBN 13: 9780007493692
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 430