On his last day with the FBI, special agent E.L. Pender is drawn into the case of phobia disorder patient Dorie Bell, whose fellow attendees at a Las Vegas phobia convention have died in manners inconsistent with their fears.
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Review:
E.L. Pender, the FBI agent introduced in Nasaw's previous mystery (The Girls He Adored, is a few days short of retirement when he gets a letter from a California woman with an unlikely premise--that the deaths of three people who, like her, attended a conference for people suffering from a variety of phobias (some very strange indeed) were not the random accidents they appeared to be, but the work of a serial killer. Once Pender meets Dorie Bell, the letter writer, he believes her, and with the help of a gutsy agent sidelined from an active career in the FBI by her recently diagnosed MS, he tracks the murderer--the man who bankrolled the conference in order to meet his victims, learn their vulnerabilities, and use their fears to kill them. The sociopathic villain of this suspenseful novel is a sort of junior-grade Hannibal Lecter who gets his bloody comeuppance in the end; having written him out of the picture, and set Pender up for retirement, one wonders who the resourceful author will turn to for his next thriller. --Jane Adams
About the Author:
Jonathan Nasaw lives in Pacific Grove, California.
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- PublisherAtria
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0743446518
- ISBN 13 9780743446518
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages336
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