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Legendary L.A. psychologist-turned-novelist Kellerman raids real life when inventing the adventures of his psychologist sleuth, Dr. Alex Delaware, and some of the scariest parts of Survival of the Fittest are historical. Eugenicists lurk behind a murder spree Alex must solve, and he notes that the eugenics movement involved one elite U.S. college professor who advocated castration of ethnically lesser men, a forced sterilization ordered by Supreme Court Justice Holmes that Hitler used as a precedent to sterilize millions, and the pre-Holocaust coinage of the phrase "final solution."
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Besides a truly horrifying theme, Survival of the Fittest boasts sharp but not arch dialogue; savvy psychological insights into stressed-out cops, suicides' loved ones, and malevolent therapists; and a sense of place so vivid that the Los Angeles Times has rated Kellerman the most evocative L.A. author since Raymond Chandler.
The plot's as twisty as a canyon road, and it's great fun to ride along with Dr. Alex and his sidekick, the burly, gay LAPD detective Milo Sturgis, as they dodge large red herrings and strive to find out why mildly handicapped kids are suffering "gentle strangulation" by killers who sign their handiwork with the mysterious letters DVLL, and what the devil this has to do with the high-IQ group Meta. Bonus for Kellerman fans: his Israeli serial killer catcher, Daniel Sharavi, star of his 1988 bestseller The Butcher's Theater, joins the sleuth team. But in the gory finale, Dr. Alex faces absolute evil all alone. --Tim Appelo
"Jonathan Kellerman doesn't just write psychological thrillers--he owns the genre."
--Detroit Free Press
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. 451 pages. Cover creawsed and wornThe slightly retarded fifte en-year-old daughter of a diplomat dies on a school field trip - forced or lured into a deserted corner of the Santa Monica mounta ins and killed in cold blood. Her father adamantly denies the pos sibility of a political motive, which leaves LAPD detective Milo Sturgis and his longtime friend Alex Delaware to pose the questio n: why? The victim's father is so intent on controlling the inves tigation that Alex and Milo start to wonder if he wants to bring out the truth - or make sure it stays buried. Then there is anoth er killing, and within days Alex finds himself ensnared in one of the darkest, most menacing cases of his career. Driven to find a nswers, he and Milo will work closely with Inspector Daniel Shara vi, the brilliant Israeli police detective introduced in Jonathan Kellerman's The Butcher's Theatre, but it is Alex who goes under cover, alone, to expose the smug brutality of a murderous conspir acy and a terrifying contempt for human life. Weaving together th e threads of a mystery that lead from a child's murder to a young scientist's suicide, Jonathan Kellerman draws one of the most ch illing, frighteningly realistic portraits of evil you will ever e xperience. Seller Inventory # 2676e
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Book Description Condition: Good. ' FEVERISH IN PACE AND RICH IN CHARACTERS . . . THIS IS A CHILLING AND IRRESISTIBLE THRILLER.' ? 'People' The daughter of a diplomat disappears on a school field trip? lured into the Santa Monica mountains and killed in cold blood. Her father denies the possibility of a political motive. There are no signs of struggle, no evidence of sexual assault, leaving psychologist Alex Delaware and his friend LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis to pose the disturbing question: 'Why'? Working together with Daniel Sharavi, a brilliant Israeli police inspector, Delaware and Sturgis soon find themselves ensnared in one of the darkest, most menacing cases of their careers. And when death strikes again, it is Alex who must go undercover, alone, to expose an unthinkable conspiracy of self-righteous brutality and total contempt for human life. 400 pages. Seller Inventory # 1185220
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