內容簡介
Fresh off the most challenging case of her career, The 7thVictim heroine and renowned FBI profiler Karen Vail returns inan explosive thriller set against the backdrop of California’s winecountry.
Hoping to find solace from the demons that haunt her, Vailmakes her first trip to the Napa Valley. But shortly afterarriving, a victim is found in the deepest reaches of the exclusivewine cave, the work of an extraordinary unpredictable serialkiller. From the outset, Vail is frustrated by her inabilityto profile the offender-until she realizes why: the BehavioralAnalysis Unit has not previously encounter a killer like him.
As Vail and the task force work around the clock to identifyand locate him, they’re caught in a web of knotted with secretiveorganizations, a decades-long feud between prominent winefamilies, and widespread corruption that leads Vail to wonder whom,if anyone, she can trust. Meanwhile, as the victim countrises, Vail can’t shake the gnawing sense that something isn’tright.
With the killer’s actions threatening the Napa Valley’smulti-billion dollar industry, the stakes have never been greater,and the race to find the killer never more urgent. And throughit all, a surprise lurks… one that Karen Vail never seescoming.
Meticulously researched during years of work wit the FBIprofiling unit and extensive interviews with wine industryprofessionals, bestselling author Alan Jacobson delivers a highvelocity thriller featuring the kind of edge-of-your-seat endingthat inspired Nelson DeMille to call him “a hell of a writer.”
作者簡介
Alan Jacobson received his Bachelor of Arts in English writing from Queens College of the City of New York, and his doctorate from Palmer College of Chiropractic West in San Jose, California. He has extensive experience testifying as an expert witness, which has exposed him to the many strengths and weaknesses of the judicial system. His previous novels include Crush, The 7th Victim, The Hunted, and False Accusations. He lives in northern California.