Jack Carpenter #2
Ballantine Books
October 2008
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Featuring: Jack Carpenter
368 pages ISBN: 0345475526 EAN: 9780345475527 Hardcover Add to Wish List
Hard-edged, evocative, brilliantly paced, James Swainβs novels of crime and punishment in South Florida delve into a shadowy realm where criminals, victims, and cops share the same truths, the same lies, and sometimes even the same nightmares.
Abb Grimes is famous. Just ask the ghoulish tourists who flock to his former home to take photographs. Years ago, Grimes killed eighteen women, some never found. As the head of the Broward County Missing Persons Unit, Jack Carpenter was intimately involved in the Grimes case. Now, days away from execution, the notorious serial killer reaches out to ex-cop Carpenter with a surprising request.
Abb Grimesβ grandson was lured from his home. The cops are convinced the boyβs fatherβAbbβs troubled son, Jedβis behind the boyβs disappearance, but Jackβs not so sure. With a personal connection to the kidnapped child, Carpenter takes the case, and thatβs when the situation goes from terrifying to fatal. Thereβs another gruesome murder, and once again the evidence points straight to Jed. Have the unspeakable sins of his father taken root within this troubled young man?
Carpenter races against time and a police department that wants his help but rejects his aggressive style as he searches through an underworld of predators, assembling the jagged pieces of a depraved puzzle, desperate to put an end to a murderous stalkerβs blood- soaked rampage.
With unremitting action and skillfully polished prose, bestselling author James Swain has written his most riveting thriller yet, delving even deeper into the fascinating psyche of misbehaving crusader Jack Carpenter. A hero immersed in the evil that is his prey, Carpenter battles a stunning betrayalβand a horrendous danger no one saw coming.
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