He's no ordinary kidnapper. Not only does he strike again and again, but he collects the ransom, gets away safely, and leaves his helpless hostages dead. Now, after months of eluding the best that law enforcement can put against him, this monster has left nothing in his wake but a cold trail of unconnected victims.
He's no ordinary cop. Lucas Jordan, a key agent and profiler in Noah Bishop's Special Crimes Unit, has an extraordinary skill: he locates missing people. But his uncanny ability comes with a price, and his methods rouse mistrust in the hard-nosed cops forced to call him into their investigations.
Now Jordan has come to Clayton County, North Carolina, where the latest in a string of kidnapping victims has turned up dead. Complicating the situation is the presence - and predictions - of someone who's even more of an outsider than Jordan himself: carnival psychic Samantha Burke, a woman out of his own haunted past. Her warnings meet with skepticism from the local police but spur Jordan on to do what he does best: hunt fear.
But the killer he is hunting is hunting Jordan - and he's already several moves ahead in a twisted game whose rules Jordan must learn in order to have a fighting chance. For his psychopathic opponent has extended a very personal challenge - and he's about to threaten the one life the profiler values even more than his own. . . .
Psychics and psychopaths, skeptics and seers knock heads in Kay Hooper's well-crafted thriller. Noah Bishop's FBI Special Crimes Unit of precognitive profilers must keep a low profile. SCU Agent Lucas Jordan locates missing people by using his extrasensory abilities. A serial kidnapper/murderer is playing a deadly game with Jordan--and winning. Jordan gets some help from carnival fortune-teller "Zarina," who has "seen" the next kidnapping, but the "carny" connection is bad press for Bishop's unit. Narrator Dick Hill slips fluidly between characters, adding minute vocal quirks that immediately identify the speaker. Boston accents, almost imperceptible shifts for higher-pitched women's voices, gruff or gentle baritones, slight nasality, or the occasional stammer define individuals, adding depth and making them credible. The pace is fast, the plot heart-stopping, and the performance first-rate. S.J.H. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine
About the Author
KAY HOOPER is the award-winning author of Sleeping with Fear, Stealing Shadows, and more than ten other novels of suspense and intrigue along with dozens of other books. She lives in North Carolina.
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