Pacific Heights (Marten Fane) - Hardcover

Harper, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805093931 ISBN 13: 9780805093933

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co, 2011

Synopsis

A San Francisco detective becomes entangled with a private intelligence agency as he investigates what appears to be a traceless form of murder

A couple meets in a seedy hotel room for an illicit affair, the rules of which are simple: no names, no personal details, the specifics of their lives off-limits. It's all very exciting to Lore Cha—the wife of a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur—who thinks their forbidden meetings and taboo sexual encounters are exactly the escape she's been looking for: every single detail is as she imagined. But that's the problem. Phillip Krey anticipates every thought before she has it. He plays out her untold fantasies down to the last detail. His insights are beyond intuitive; they're invasive, even frightening. It's as if he has access into her mind. Across town, Elise Currin, wife to one of San Francisco's most powerful businessmen, is also seeing Krey, and is slowly being driven insane by his ability to tap in to her most private desires. When it's revealed that these women are also seeing the same therapist, a chilling scenario unfolds, and the quiet, plotting detective Marten Fane is called in.

Slowly Fane uncovers a plot that goes beyond Krey to reveal a powerful private sector, secret government involvement, and one of the most elaborate and monstrous psychological experiments imaginable: a traceless form of murder.

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'This was a real page-turner of a book ... Well-paced ... Harper's style is good, crisp writing' shotsmag. (shotsmag)

From the Back Cover

Pacific Heights, San Francisco.
THE PREY: Psychiatrist Vera List discovers two of her clients are having an affair with the same man - a man who sends a chill down her spine.
THE PREDATOR: This serial seducer, who insists on anonymity, seems to know both women's most intimate secrets. Moreover, he appears to be using this knowledge to push them to their psychological limits.
THE PROFESSIONAL: Fearing for their safety, Vera turns to Marten Fane, intelligence operative for hire. Fane, along with his trusted team of surveillance experts, must find this man.
Yet as Fane delves deeper into the world of his target, his instinct in confirmed: this is not just some creepy Lothario. This is a frighteningly calculated professional; and one Fane will have to move like lightning to stop.

About this edition

• Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0805093931
• ISBN 13: 9780805093933
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 349