
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER THE CALLER Seven days after being abducted the body of a twenty-year-old woman is found on a green patch of grass by the Los Angeles International Airport She has been left with her limbs stretched out & spread apart placing her in a five-point human star The autopsy reveals that she had been murdered in a most terrible way But the surprises don't end there Detective Robert Hunter who leads LAPD's Special Section Ultra Violent Unit is assigned the case But almost immediately a second body turns up Hunter knows he has to be quick Surrounded by new challenges as every day passes Detective Hunter finds himself chasing a monster A predator whose past hides a terrible secret whose desire to hurt people & thirst for murder can never be quenched
- for he is DEATHPraise for Chris Carter ' This is a chilling compulsive portrait of a psychopath & proves that Carter is now in the Jeffrey Deaver class' Daily Mail ' Punchy & fast paced' Sunday Mirror ' There's a touch of the Patricia Cornwell about Chris Carter's plotting' Mail on Sunday