A phone call in the dead of night brings Joe Lassiter shattering news. His sister and young nephew have died in a fire in their home near Washington, D.C. Yet Lassiter soon learns a chilling fact: His loved ones were brutally murdered before the blaze was set. . . .
The mysterious suspect's identity only raises more questions. Then Lassiter uncovers another crime--another innocent mother and child murdered. The more he unearths, the larger the web of conspiracy grows, as his search for answers leads him on a dangerous international chase toward a truth that will shock him--and the world--to the very bone. . . .
From the Paperback edition.
John Case is the pseudonym of an award-winning investigative reporter and the author of two nonfiction books about the U.S. intelligence community. A resident of Washington, D.C., he is the proprietor of a company that specializes in international investigations for law firms and labor unions.
From the Paperback edition.
A phone call in the dead of night brings Joe Lassiter shattering news. His sister and young nephew have died in a fire in their home near Washington, D.C. Yet Lassiter soon learns a chilling fact: His loved ones were brutally murdered before the blaze was set. . . .
The mysterious suspect's identity only raises more questions. Then Lassiter uncovers another crime--another innocent mother and child murdered. The more he unearths, the larger the web of conspiracy grows, as his search for answers leads him on a dangerous international chase toward a truth that will shock him--and the world--to the very bone. . . .
From the Paperback edition.
John Case is the pseudonym of an award-winning investigative reporter and the author of two nonfiction books about the U.S. intelligence community. A resident of Washington, D.C., he is the proprietor of a company that specializes in international investigations for law firms and labor unions.
From the Paperback edition.
John Case is the pseudonym of an award-winning investigative reporter and the author of two nonfiction books about the U.S. intelligence community. A resident of Washington, D.C., he is the proprietor of a company that specializes in international investigations for law firms and labor unions.
“[A] taut thriller . . . razor-sharp dialogue, Byzantine story
twists, and several harrowing encounters.”—Chicago Tribune
“Sharply written and paced . . . a book that snaps, crackles, and
pops.”—People
“Impeccable in plot, immaculate in story resolution, and movies
with high skill from locale to locale and from suspense to
suspense. What a very good, virtuoso read!”—Norman Mailer
“Endless twists and several surprises.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch
“Compelling . . . [A] thriller of the first magnitude . . . A
kicker of an ending . . . one that will cross your mind more than
once after you’ve placed this book among your collection of
keepers.”—Associated Press
A doctor's confession to an Italian priest is so disturbing that the priest refuses to absolve him, then closes his church and waits four days for an audience with a cardinal in the Vatican. A few months later, a woman and her young son are gruesomely murdered and their house set on fire. The brother and main character, Joe Lassiter, is determined to find out why. He's pleased that the man who did the killings is in custody in the hospital, badly burned. Then the impossible happens: the killer escapes. So begins a compelling and suspenseful first novel about murder and religious fanaticism. The story moves along at a tremendous pace but is so packed with intriguing tidbits about the information age that it's at once a little unsettling and hard to put down. Great reading right to the very end; for most popular collections.‘Shirley Gibson Coleman, Ann Arbor Dist. Lib., Mich.
YA‘The action in this suspenseful novel shifts from a picturesque hill town in Italy, to the streets of Rome, to a suburb of Washington, DC, and finally to its climax on a remote island in Maine. Joe Lassiter takes a leave of absence from his high-tech investigation agency to search for the murderer of his only sister and her son. He soon finds himself analyzing a string of other unsolved murders of mothers and their young sons, all of whom stayed at a fertility clinic in Italy. A physician renowned for his success at artificial insemination, a rural priest with a terrible secret revealed in confession, and the charismatic leader of a conservative Catholic organization all provide clues that lead Joe to the one person who can help him solve the mystery. This fast-paced thriller will draw YAs into some interesting questions concerning the use of DNA material and the ethics of genetic engineering, and will provide them with fascinating insights into the uses of modern investigative techniques.‘Molly Connally, Kings Park Library, Fairfax County, VA
"[A] taut thriller . . . razor-sharp dialogue, Byzantine story
twists, and several harrowing encounters."-Chicago
Tribune
"Sharply written and paced . . . a book that snaps, crackles, and
pops."-People
"Impeccable in plot, immaculate in story resolution, and movies
with high skill from locale to locale and from suspense to
suspense. What a very good, virtuoso read!"-Norman
Mailer
"Endless twists and several surprises."-Richmond
Times-Dispatch
"Compelling . . . [A] thriller of the first magnitude . . . A
kicker of an ending . . . one that will cross your mind more than
once after you've placed this book among your collection of
keepers."-Associated Press
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