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January 2007
On Sale: January 15, 2007
400 pages
ISBN: 0765340674
EAN: 9780765340672
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Thriller Political
When a prominent Mississippi civil rights attorney asks
renowned neurosurgeon Bradford Stone to help her save the
life of a white racist condemned to death for the cold case
murder of a black man, he has no idea that he is about to
be dragged through a deadly past he thought he had escaped
once and for all. Stone, the disinherited scion of a powerful Delta Planter
family, has no premonition that he is about live through
the hellish proof of William Faulkner's axiom that, "The
past isn't over; it's not even past." Set mostly in Mississippi – primarily the Delta region
where the real-life gothic exceeds the most outlandish
Flannery O'Connor story – Perfect Killer tells the story of
a future which can never break free of the past. The mystery is centered in the Mississippi Delta in a top-
secret military project begun decades ago in a facility
once housing German POWs. The program, Project Enduring
Valor, is designed to create the ultimate human killing
machine. For over seventy years, has sought the Holy Grail
of combat medicine: a chemical compound that would turn
ordinary soldiers into weapons of mass destruction, the
Perfect Killers. Now, after decades of covert trial and
error which have resulted in troubling side effects such as
the My Lai massacre, Enduring Valor is ready to be
implemented on a massive scale--despite a few troubling
side-effects. Before he knows it, Stone himself in the sights of the
Project's director, a retired general and war hero turned
presidential candidate. To get back his life, and expose
the truth, Stone must struggle with the South's racist
legacy, the demons of his past and penetrate the very heart
of the lethal conspiracy.
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