In this riveting follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The
Clinic, Jonathan Kellerman proves once again why he is "crime
fiction's hottest author." And psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware
confronts an almost unimaginably cruel, arrogant, and obsessed killer
who takes as much pleasure in matching wits with the police as in
robbing human life.The slightly retarded fifteen-year-old daughter of
a diplomat dies on a school field trip--forced or lured into a
deserted corner of the Santa Monica mountains and killed in cold
blood. Her father adamantly denies the possibility of a political
motive, which leaves LAPD detective Milo Sturgis and his longtime
friend psychologist Alex Delaware to pose the question: Why?There are
no signs of struggle, no evidence of sexual assault--and there are no
easy answers. Just one innocent youngster...dead.The victim's father
is so intent on controlling the investigation that Alex and Milo
start to wonder if he wants to bring out the truth--or make sure it
stays buried. Then there is another killing, and within days Alex
finds himself ensnared in one of the darkest, most menacing cases of
his career.Driven to find answers, he and Milo will work closely with
Inspector Daniel Sharavi, the brilliant Israeli police detective
introduced in Jonathan Kellerman's The Butcher's Theater. In the end,
though, it is Alex who will go undercover, alone, to expose the smug
brutality of a murderous conspiracy and a terrifying contempt for
human life. Weaving together the threads of a mystery that lead from
a child's murder to a young scientist's suicide, Jonathan Kellerman
draws one of the most chilling, frighteningly realistic portraits of
evil you will ever experience.
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