Shauna S. (avid-reader-for-life) reviewed on 3/26/2008 + 5 more book reviews

Call him Max. But don't shake his hand. Don't get to close at all. Because Max isn't just Max. He's a whole lot of people, a twisted collection of personalities struggling to find a way out. One of those personalities is vicious. Insatiable. A man with a talent for the blade and a hunger for women with strawberry blond hair.

Max's latest quarry, Dr. Irene Cogan, is about to learn two things firsthand: what makes Max tick, and what happened to

THE GIRLS HE ADORED

Jonathan Nasaw brilliantly portrays three equally intense characters--deviant killer, the expert psychiatrist he abducts, and the charmingly disheveled veteran FBI agent on their trail--in this sexually charged thriller of extraordinary originality and page-turning suspense.

"Hannibal Lecter better get busy. Forget the nice Chianti and fava beans, his position as pound-for-pound the scariest of the world's fictional and diabolical monsters is clearly at risk."
-The Toronto Sun

"Compelling and intellectually stimulating, Nasaw's novel draws a complex portrait of the multiple-personality serial killer...not easy to put down or forget."
-The Dallas Morning News

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