The Murder Artist - Softcover

Case, John

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ISBN 10: 0345464729 ISBN 13: 9780345464729

Publisher: Fawcett Books, 2005

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The bestselling author of The Genesis Code and The Eighth Day now strikes his most harrowing chord, with a chilling novel that pushes suspense to nearly inhuman limits.

As a television news correspondent, Alex Callahan has traveled to some of the most dangerous corners of the globe, covering famine, plague, and war. He's seen more than his share of blood and death, and knows what it means to be afraid. But what he's never known is the terror that grabs him when, on a tranquil summer afternoon, he ceases to be an observer of the dark side and, to his shock, becomes enmeshed in it.

Separated from his wife, and struggling not to become a stranger to his six-year-old twin sons, Alex is logging some all-too-rare quality time with the boys, when they vanish without a trace amid the hurly-burly of a countryside Renaissance Fair.
Then the phone call comes. A chilling silence; slow, steady breathing; and the familiar, plaintive voice of a child-"Daddy?"-complete the nightmare . . . and set in motion a juggernaut of frenzy and agony.

The longer the police search, exhausting leads without success, the deeper Alex's certainty grows that time is running out. And when, at last, telltale signs reveal a hidden pattern of bizarre and ghoulish abductions, Alex vows to use his own relentless investigative skills to rescue his children from the shadowy figure dubbed The Piper.

Whoever this elusive stranger is, the profile that slowly emerges-from previous crimes involving twins, from the zealously secret world of professional magicians, and from the eerie culture of voodoo-suggests that The Piper is a predator unlike any other. A twisted soul hell-bent on fulfilling an unspeakably dark dream. A fiend with a terrifying true calling. What Alex Callahan is closing in on is a monster with a mission.

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Review:

PRAISE FOR JOHN CASE

The Eighth Day

"Deliciously sinister . . . A breakneck yarn of good vs. evil."
-People (Page-turner of the week)

"John Case . . . has outdone himself. The Eighth Day is a harrowing novel of suspense."
-Tampa Tribune & Times

The Syndrome

"A glass-shattering, diesel-fueled, hard-charging thrill ride of a read . . . [John Case is] a confident master working at peak performance."
-LORENZO CARCATERRA
Author of Paradise City and Sleepers

"A top-notch yarn . . . The always-intriguing John Case is back. . . . Filled with fascinating details on the research and history of behavior control, The Syndrome delivers the thrills."
-Chicago Tribune

From the Publisher:

Magic, voodoo and death - the electrifying new thriller from the bestselling author of The Genesis Code

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