Everyone has secrets. Some secrets are worse than others,
and people will do just about anything to keep them as such.
Psychologist, Alan Gregory, is used to listening to other
people's secrets. It's what he does for a living, but right
now he is going through a very rough time in his
professional and personal life. He has a few secrets of his
own that he really doesn't want analyzed by anyone, least of
all a former patient. Michael McClelland, a former patient,
has Alan to thank for putting him in the Colorado State
Mental Hospital. Upon his untimely escape, Michael sets his
plans to use those secrets to get revenge on the Gregory
family and close circle of friends in action. A brilliant
manipulator, Michael has the ability to take the
psychological weaknesses of his victims and tangle them deep
into a web of fear and deceit. Keeping a step ahead and
knowing what makes people tick, patients and professionals
alike fall prey to his sick psychological game of revenge.
Time is running out. Some secrets must be told.
DRY ICE is a brilliant game of psychological cat and mouse.
The plot is clever with an astute understanding of the human
psyche. The characters' primal desires to keep what they
fear hidden is extremely believable, and the reader is kept
engrossed as the plot unfolds with every psychological twist
and turn. A great book for those who enjoy substance in
their reading.
New York Times bestselling author Stephen White
brings back his popular character, psychologist Alan
Gregory, to take on the sociopathic killer from White’s
first novel—who, many years later, has walked away from a
mental hospital, hungry for revenge.
It has been
years since the mayhem was unleashed in Privileged
Information. Now Michael McClelland, the brilliant,
determined killer introduced in White’s first novel, has
left the Colorado State Mental Hospital—and he’s coming
after Alan Gregory’s family. The timing couldn’t be
deadlier; like a cornered animal, Alan is in a deeply
vulnerable state, facing severe doubts about his
professional life, his marriage, and his own psyche. And
McClelland holds the most powerful weapons of all: secrets
from Alan’s past. Secrets Alan thought he had successfully
buried years ago. Secrets not even his wife knows. Time is
running out as Alan scrambles to outwit his nemesis while
confronting each of his worst nightmares. His becomes a
captivating psychological journey into the events that
forever change us, and the relentless drumbeat of the past.
Faithful readers of the series and newcomers alike will be
mesmerized by this searing view into the revered doctor’s
heart—with a haunting conclusion that will secure Dry
Ice’s place as the most memorable of White’s novels.