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 Swain’s
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 Grimes’ grandson was
lured from his home. The cops are convinced the boy’s
father–Abb’s troubled son, Jed–is behind the boy’s
disappearance, but Jack’s not so sure. With a personal
connection to the kidnapped child, Carpenter takes the
case, and that’s when the situation goes from terrifying
to fatal. There’s 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 stalker’s 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 betrayal–and a
horrendous danger no one saw coming.
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