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The body looked like all the others: a female bound at the wrists
and ankles, blood-oozing welts criss-crossing her buttocks, crushed
larynx; most of all, her palate was pierced with that wickedly
shaped fishing hook for controlling her while she endured the
unspeakable. Yet, one thing distinguished her from the other
corpses: she was thawing in Gus Bolderjack's favorite chair.
Bolderjack, a psychotherapist, had been an exceptional profiler who
couldn't stay out of the action. He'd bait serial killers into
stalking him, and then snare them by hook or by crook. Labeled hero
by some and psycho shrink by others, one thing was clear: his
methods worked. Then, after losing a feud with U. S. Attorney
Carrie Sullivan-Bledsoe over a murderer's plea bargain he departed
the field to join his lover in her high-end Sun Valley resort
clinic, tending to the emotional needs of the rich and richer. That
works for a while until Sullivan-Bledsoe, now a state attorney
general, loses her son to a kidnapper at nearly the same time a
powerful tabloid publisher's niece disappears. Bolderjack gets
sucked into the fray, where he finds himself in a universe ruled by
political ambition and intriguing, double-dealing characters,
including those he's trying to help. The further he pushes into the
web the more venom he encounters and the more he has to face his
own shortcomings. To top it off he becomes the target of two
gruesome serial killers sharing goals and a lust for vengeance, and
the only way to save himself is to punch through the politics and
get the killers before they get him.
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