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A burned out FBI agent and a cop pursue a psychopathic murderer who is befriended by a troubled innocent, and the horror mounts when the agent mistakes the killer for a would-be victim
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David Wiltse is the author of many acclaimed novels, including Home Again, The Fifth Angel, and The Serpent. His most unforgettable character, FBI agent John Becker, is featured in the thrillers Prayer for the Dead, Close to the Bone, The Edge of Sleep, Into the Fire, and Bone Deep. Mr. Wiltse is also an award-winning playwright. He lives with his daughters, Laura and Lisa, in Connecticut.
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Another serial psycho-killer from a specialist in the genre (The Wedding Guest, The Serpent, The Fifth Angel). Roger Dyce is a Connecticut insurance agent who likes to inject young men of Scandinavian extraction with a paralyzing drug, drain their blood (slowly, over several days), and dress them in the clothing of his beloved grandfather before dismembering their bodies. As he's disposing of his eighth victim, Dyce is drifting uncharacteristically toward Helen--a supermarket checker whose life expectancy dramatically declines--and eyeing as his next victim Eric Brandauer, a young tough who has ideas of his own. When his trap to catch Eric lands him in the hospital with an Eric-broken nose, Dyce comes face to face with his nemesis/double John Becker--an ex-FBI agent who quit the Bureau out of fear of his uncanny empathy for killers and his own growing propensity for violence.... The motivation of both men is tediously spun out--via italicized flashbacks revealing the nature of Dyce's attachment to his grandfather and Becker's sessions with his rock-climbing girlfriend and his psychiatrist--but the plotting of thrust and counterthrust, and the morituri musings, are chillingly understated. Creepy stuff, all right. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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- PublisherG.P. Putnam's Sons
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 039913607X
- ISBN 13 9780399136078
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages297
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