Psychopath: A Novel (Frank Clevenger) - Softcover

Ablow, Keith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312996055 ISBN 13: 9780312996055

Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2004

Synopsis

12 bodies, 12 states. What no one knows is that the "Highway Killer" is also a gifted psychiatrist who lures his victims into a false sense of security with his miraculous ability to understand their darkest emotional secrets. He is their confessor, but he is also their executioner. When the killer writes to The New York Times, challenging famed forensic psychiatrist Frank Clevenger to heal him through an exchange of open letters on the front page, he opens his diabolical mind to the one man with the courage to cure him-or die trying...

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"A superior read."
-Entertainment Weekly

12 bodies, 12 states. What no one knows is that the "Highway Killer" is also a gifted psychiatrist who lures his victims into a false sense of security with his miraculous ability to understand their darkest emotional secrets. He is their confessor, but he is also their executioner. When the killer writes to The New York Times, challenging famed forensic psychiatrist Frank Clevenger to heal him through an exchange of open letters on the front page, he opens his diabolical mind to the one man with the courage to cure him-or die trying...

"Dr. Frank Clevenger, forensic psychiatrist and (somewhat reluctant) crime-solver, is quickly becoming one of the genre's most intriguing protagonists...a strange and hypnotic thriller...fascinating."
-Booklist

"A tour de force. Ablow is not satisfied with the superficial. He digs deep to create complex characters"
-Orlando Sentinel

Visit Keith Ablow's Web site at: www.keithablow.com

From the Inside Flap:

"Ablow is king of the psychological thriller...
The pages will singe your hands."
--Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River

"Fast-paced and frightening."
--Janet Evanovich, author of Hard Eight

"Ablow's got the instincts of a zen thomas harris."
--James Ellroy

"A very fine writer."
--Nelson DeMille

"No one burrows into the darkest recesses of the heart as deeply as Keith Ablow."
--Tess Gerritsen, author of The Surgeon

"Keith Ablow's setting is the darkest of all-
The twists and turns of the human mind."
--Harlan Coben, author of Gone For Good

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0312996055
• ISBN 13: 9780312996055
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 352