Das Leben von Smoky Barrett verläuft endlich wieder normal. Sie ist Opfer eines verrückten Killers geworden und dem Tod nur knapp entgangen. Die schreckliche Tat hat sie noch lange in Albträumen und schlaflosen Nächten verfolgt. Ihren Beruf als FBI-Agentin wollte sie eigentlich an den Nagel hängen, doch mittlerweile hat sie neuen Mut geschöpft und geht wieder auf Verbrecherjagd. Als Smoky eines Nachts an einen Tatort gerufen wird, werden ihre schlimmsten Ängste wieder lebendig. Ein junges Mädchen droht im Haus ihrer Eltern Selbstmord zu begehen. Sie verlangt ausdrücklich nach Smoky und möchte sich nur ihr anvertrauen. Smoky findet das Mädchen im Schlafzimmer ihrer Eltern - sie kauert neben den grausam entstellten Leichen. Der Boden des Raums ist blutgetränkt; auf der Decke und an den Wänden prangen Blutgemälde. Der Todeskünstler hat das Mädchen besucht, und das nicht zum ersten Mal. Seit Jahren zerstört er das Leben des Mädchen, tötet jeden, der ihr lieb ist. Sein Ziel: sie in den Wahnsinn treiben und nach seinem Bildneu erschaffen. Smoky muss den Killer stellen, bevor er zurückkehrt und sein Werk vollendet ...

Zusatztext Gripping from the first page to the last. The twists and turns in this thriller keep you in suspense until the last page Informationen zum Autor Cody Mcfadyen designed websites until he became a full time writer when he got a publishing deal for his first thriller, SHADOW MAN. He lives in Southern California with his two black labradors. He drinks coffee (copiously), plays guitar (badly), and reads (voraciously). He abhors adverbs in writing, except when used in short biographies like this one. Visit Cody Mcfadyen's website at www.codymcfadyen.com Klappentext A young woman loses her family, her friends, almost anyone who has ever even done her a kindness to a maniacal serial killer. It's as if every trace of human contact is being wiped out of her life. Her terrifying case is handed to a woman who has had so much of her own happiness snatched away from her: Smoky Barrett, the extraordinary heroine of Mcfadyen's stunning debut SHADOW MAN. Now caring for her murdered friend's mute daughter, Smoky must decide whether or not she can rise to one more fiendish challenge... Agent Barrett and her team return in the follow up to SHADOW MAN, the most shockingly brilliant debut thriller of 2006 Zusammenfassung Agent Barrett and her team return in the follow up to SHADOW MAN, the most shockingly brilliant debut thriller of 2006

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Agent Barrett and her team return in the follow up to SHADOW MAN, the most shockingly brilliant debut thriller of 2006

Autorentext

Cody Mcfadyen designed websites until he became a full time writer when he got a publishing deal for his first thriller, SHADOW MAN. He lives in Southern California with his two black labradors. He drinks coffee (copiously), plays guitar (badly), and reads (voraciously). He abhors adverbs in writing, except when used in short biographies like this one.
Visit Cody Mcfadyen's website at www.codymcfadyen.com

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A young woman loses her family, her friends, almost anyone who has ever even done her a kindness to a maniacal serial killer. It's as if every trace of human contact is being wiped out of her life.

Her terrifying case is handed to a woman who has had so much of her own happiness snatched away from her: Smoky Barrett, the extraordinary heroine of Mcfadyen's stunning debut SHADOW MAN.

Now caring for her murdered friend's mute daughter, Smoky must decide whether or not she can rise to one more fiendish challenge...