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Ballantine
July 2004
Featuring: Jeffrey Clayton
544 pages
ISBN: 0345477251
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Suspense
An authority on serial killers wrestles with an unspeakable
secret. A puzzle writer is caught in a terrifying game to
the death. A madman thirsts for revenge--and reckoning. In
State of Mind, John Katzenbach turns these elements into a
pulse-pounding ride of nonstop action and psychological
suspense. A professor of abnormal psychology, Jeffrey Clayton
struggles with a dark past. Twenty-five years before,
Jeffrey and his mother and sister fled his tyrannical
father--a man who was later suspected in the heinous murder
of a young student. Though the father was never charged, he
committed suicide. Or so it seemed. Since then Jeffrey's mother and his sister Susan have
concealed themselves in the remote tangled swamps of the
Upper Keys, where Susan creates word games for Miami
Magazine. But someone has sent her a cryptic note. Once
deciphered, it carries a terrifying message: I have found
you. At the same time, a serial killer has invaded a community
whose citizens seek a haven of old-fashioned values. And
one new-fashioned guarantee: unconditional safety. But no
one is safe from this intruder--who murders young girls in
unspeakable ways. Is Jeffrey Clayton's father the source of
this latest killing spree? The authorities think so--and
they present Jeffrey with an ultimatum: find the butcher
responsible for the newborn spate of carnage. Find your
father. As this race-against-time scenario unfolds, each player--
brother, sister, mother--becomes a pawn in a cunning
killer's elaborate maze. "He plays at death," Jeffrey
says. "That's the game. And now, we're the pieces. . . ."
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