Shadow Man

This electrifying thriller takes the serial-killer novel where it's never dared to go before--a tale haunted by a psychopath so real, you'll feel him breathing down your neck on every page...

Special Agent Smoky Barrett was once one of the FBI's best profilers--until a madman killed her husband and daughter. Now Smoky dreams about picking up her weapon again . . . and turning it on herself. Because for a woman who's lost everything, what is there left to lose? She's about to find out.

No one has ever encountered anyone lilfe him--a new and fascinating breed of killer who defies profilers' attempts to understand or identify him. And he's coaxed Smoky back from the brink with the only thing that could convince her to live: a challenge, and an innocent child. As this deranged monster embarks on an unspeakable spree of perversion and murder, Smoky comes alive again to face her greatest fears as a cop, a woman, a mother . . . and a killer's next victim.