See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. A deadly warning in a
deadly game.In the bestselling tradition of The Silence of the
Lambs comes The Tower, a novel of nail-biting suspense and
heart-stopping terror played out in a psychological battle of wit,
cunning, and pure evil between a diabolically clever killer and his
determined hunter.The Tower, nicknamed Alcatraz II by law
enforcement officials, is infamous as the world's foremost airtight
extreme maximum security prison. A futuristic building, it is
located offshore of San Francisco, and built to be 100 percent
escape-proof. The men who are condemned to spend the rest of their
lives there are the most dangerous, violent offenders in the prison
system -- men whose crimes have made it imperative that they be
separated from society, from one another, and from hope --
forever.Allander Atlasia, a psychopathic killer and himself the
victim of a horrible sexual attack as a child, has been sentenced
to the Tower for a series of gruesome crimes. But Atlasia manages
to do the impossible -- he breaks out of the prison. He makes his
way to the mainland and, armed with his own private agenda of hate
and murder, begins his killing spree, intent on re-enacting and
revenging the childhood tortures that turned him into a
monster.Jade Marlow is an ex-FBI agent who has been assigned to
hunt down and capture Atlasia. A self-described tracker, Marlow is
relentless, fearless, and brilliant -- a loose cannon in a private
struggle with his own demons. With a record of irrational behavior
and violence, and a kind of genius for putting himself into the
mind of a criminal predator that is itself a sort of madness,
Marlow may just be the only man smart and diabolical enough to
catch Atlasia.Atlasia's victims are the unfortunate bystanders in
this complex story of emotional and psychological horror, as they
fall prey to this madman's twisted re-enactment of his own depraved
past, as he rights the wrongs he feels have been visited upon him.
His message to his pursuers is delivered in a particularly chilling
manner, a literal realization of the old adage See no evil, hear no
evil, speak no evil.Two men -- one a sinister, inventive, pitiless
serial killer, the other a brilliant sleuth and hunter who bears
his own heavy burden of dark secrets and impulses -- play out a
deadly game against a background of increasingly brutal murders, in
which there are no rules but kill or be killed.Superbly written,
ingeniously plotted, and enormously entertaining, The Tower marks
the debut of a stunning new writer.
General
Imprint: |
Simon & Schuster
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
August 2007 |
First published: |
August 2007 |
Authors: |
Gregg Andrew Hurwitz
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
384 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4165-7279-4 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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LSN: |
1-4165-7279-1 |
Barcode: |
9781416572794 |
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