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1959. An eight-year-old girl is abducted in a small Illinois town and found murdered. No arrests. No answers. Just fear. The case goes cold — the oldest unsolved murder on record.Some evil doesn't age. It just waits.Twenty-five years later, retired detective Joe McCann trades his badge for a quiet life on a Northwoods resort on a quiet lake. The town is small. Everyone knows everyone. It should be the end of the story for him.It isn't.When a young woman is murdered, McCann can't stop being what he is and he can't ignore the plea for help from local officials. And what he doesn't know — what he can't know yet — is that the man he's hunting has lived among these people for decades. Patient. Careful. Certain he has never made a mistake.He's been playing his sick game for decades and he's about to meet his match. The Master of the Game is a thriller about the predator you never see coming, a cold case that never really went cold, and the cost of being the one man stubborn enough to look.