
Barbara S. (
5927) wrote on 9/16/2008...
This was another good one by Hooper with the profiler and psychic special unit of the FBI. Very fast read and keeps you interested all the way.
He's no ordinary kidnapper, he strikes again and again, collects ransome and leave hostages dead. But his real prey is one of their own, the ones who have come to capture him.
Good, quick, fun thriller!

Irene W. (
sky) wrote on 1/4/2007...
He's no ordinary kidnapper. Not only does he strike again and again, but he collects the ransom, gets away safely, and leaves his helpless hostages dead. Now, after months of eluding the best that law enforcement can put against him, this monster has left nothing in his wake but a cold trail of unconnected victims.
He's no ordinary cop. Lucas Jordan, a key agent and profiler in Noah Bishop's Special Crimes Unit, has an extraordinary skill: he locates missing people. But his uncanny ability comes with a price, and his methods rouse mistrust in the hard-nosed cops forced to call him into their investigations.
Now Jordan has come to Clayton County, North Carolina, where the latest in a string of kidnapping victims has turned up dead. Complicating the situation is the presence-and predictions-of someone who's even more of an outsider than Jordan himself: carnival phychic Samantha Burke, a woman out of his own hautned past. Her warnings meet with skepticism from the local police but spur Jordan on to do what he does best: hunt fear.
But the killer he is hunting is hunting Jordan-and he's already several moves ahead in a twisted game whose rules Jordan must learn in order to have a fighting chance. For his psychopathic opponent has extended a very personal challenge-and he's about to threaten the one life the profiler values even more than his own....
I have enjoyed all of Hooper's books- this was another good one.
well-written, lots of twists and turns in the plot.
The first of another of the Bishop trilogies. Sam is a carnival seer and Lucas finds people by focusing in on their fear. They both hunt a serial killer, who kidnaps and leaves his victims to die - in a way that they most fear. This was a page turner for me.
I absolutely loved this book. Couldn't put it down! I find that Kay Hooper's books just keep getting better and better.