The Master of the Game (Paperback)

Paperback. 1959. An eight-year-old girl is abducted in a small Illinois town and found murdered. No arrests. No answers. Just fear. The case goes cold - the oldest unsolved murder on record.Some evil doesn't age. It just waits.Twenty-five years later, retired detective Joe McCann trades his badge for a quiet life on a Northwoods resort on a quiet lake. The town is small. Everyone knows everyone. It should be the end of the story for him.It isn't.When a young woman is murdered, McCann can't stop being what he is and he can't ignore the plea for help from local officials. And what he doesn't know - what he can't know yet - is that the man he's hunting has lived among these people for decades. Patient. Careful. Certain he has never made a mistake.He's been playing his sick game for decades and he's about to meet his match. The Master of the Game is a thriller about the predator you never see coming, a cold case that never really went cold, and the cost of being the one man stubborn enough to look. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…