For three years, Chief Investigator Cassie Dewell has been hunting the Lizard King. Twice she's nearly had him and watched him slip through her fingers, but this time, the trap is set and she's certain she'll catch him.

But when the plan fails, and three policemen die in the chaos, Cassie loses her job. But she won't - she can't - give up the hunt. So when two teenage boys go missing and it looks like the Lizard King is involved, Cassie takes to the road.

A road from which, quite possibly, there is no return.

A road that ends in Paradise Valley.

After a heart-in-mouth opening sequence, you're along for the ride across North Dakota and Montana and into the heart of an American nightmare. Breathtakingly good' Sunday Times Crime Club Star Pick.

Vorwort

Cassie Dewell is on the hunt and won't back down in this thrilling new novel from the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author, C.J. Box.

Autorentext
C.J. Box is the author of twenty-two Joe Pickett novels, five stand-alone novels, and a story collection. He has won Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, Gumshoe, and Barry Awards, as well as the French Prix Calibre .38. He has been a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist, and his books have been translated into twenty-seven languages. A Wyoming native, Box has also worked on a ranch and as a small-town newspaper reporter and editor. He lives outside Cheyenne with his family. Follow him on @cjboxauthor cjbox.net

Klappentext

Investigator Cassie Dewell's three-year hunt for the serial killer known as 'The Lizard King' comes to a climax.

Zusammenfassung

PARADISE VALLEY... THE END OF THE ROAD.

For three years, Chief Investigator Cassandra 'Cassie' Dewell has been hunting the Lizard King. Twice she has come close to taking him, but this time she surely has him. The trap is set and baited.

What happens next will cost three policemen their lives and Cassie her job. But she can't give up the hunt she refuses to believe the charred body they pull from the flames is the Lizard King's. Tracking two missing fourteen-year-old boys, Cassie alone takes to the road. A road from which, quite possibly, there is no return. A road that ends in Paradise Valley.