Identity (Five Star First Edition Mystery Series) - Hardcover

Vance, Steve

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786230088 ISBN 13: 9780786230082

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 2001

Synopsis

FBI agent Russell Montgomery follows a trail of corpses--a series of crimes that bear a striking resemblance to the work of serial killer Calvin Peter Bryant, a criminal killed by Montgomery himself--to a famous plastic surgery center with a dark secret. Original.

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From Booklist:

Three young people are found butchered in rural Washington State. To FBI agent Russell Montgomery, it is unmistakably the work of Calvin Peter Bryant, aka the Prince of Darkness, assumed to have been killed by Montgomery himself. Bryant, it turns out, has been saved by the Madison Virginia Facial and Cranial Center, whose surgeons have been working for the CIA, building new faces for serial killers, who are then assigned to do off-the-record assassinations. The paths of the Prince, agent Montgomery, a staffer from the center, and an ex-con drifter named Bobby Preston are about to converge in a violent series of events that will leave even the survivors with scars that no doctor can erase. Vance takes the standard psycho-killer format and adds a frightening twist with the new-identity factor. The killer walks among all the principals, but we don't know who he is until the last few pages. Character takes a back seat to plot here, but the frenetic action will keep readers guessing until the final chapter. Wes Lukowsky
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From Publishers Weekly:

ublic do-gooder Dr. Ansel Heywood secretly does reconstructive surgery for the Federal Witness Protection Program including removing people's memories to create government assassins in Steve Vance's (The Hyde Effect) Identity. Searching for his vanished sister upon being released from wrongful incarceration, Bobby Preston visits Dr. Heywood's practice only to become embroiled in a massive, covert project that's not turning out as the government planned.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Pr
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0786230088
• ISBN 13: 9780786230082
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 313