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Book SynopsisFBI profiler Karen Vail is on the hunt for an escaped serial killer in the latest jaw-dropping thriller from USA Today–bestselling author Alan Jacobson. Jasmine Marcks was a teenager when she discovered her father was a killer. First, there was the strip of bloody duct tape; then, the bloodstain on his shirt; and finally, the long nights away from home that always coincided with gruesome deaths. Roscoe Lee Marcks killed fourteen people before he was finally put behind bars. But as renowned FBI agent Karen Vail soon learns, Marcks’s reign of terror isn’t over yet.
After writing a book about growing up as the child of a serial killer, Jasmine receives a letter—a single sheet of paper mailed from the maximum-security prison Marcks now calls home. The page hides a threatening message from a father who wants vengeance against the daughter who turned him in to the police. So when Marcks breaks out of prison, Agent Vail calls on a legendary retired profiler to help her find the escaped convict—and keep him from making Jasmine his fifteenth victim.
Alan Jacobson created Karen Vail—one of the most compelling heroes in suspense fiction, earning acclaim from James Patterson, Nelson DeMille, and Michael Connelly—after seven years of working with two senior profilers at the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s legendary Behavioral Analysis Unit. Over the years, Vail has tangled with the worst serial killers America has to offer. But none compares to Roscoe Lee Marcks.
Trade Review“Intriguing … A right-good thriller … [with] top-level action.” —
Booklist “Smoothly written and intricately plotted. Like
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Jacobson lays bare the malevolence that lurks in the human heart. An impressive read.” —John Sandford, #1
New York Times–bestselling author
“A slick, fast read full of very clever twists. Karen Vail is one tough heroine!” —Phillip Margolin,
New York Times–bestselling author of
Violent Crimes “The Darkness of Evil is chock full of twists and turns amid dramatic and skillfully plotted scenes that draw the reader in and tug at the emotions. . . . Addictive reading, with more twists than a Chubby Checker album, by a master storyteller at the top of his game.” —
The Strand MagazinePraise for Alan Jacobson “Jacobson should be mandatory reading for the James Patterson crowd.” —
Library Journal on
Inmate 1577 “A powerful thriller, brilliantly conceived and written.” —Clive Cussler,
New York Times–bestselling author, on
Inmate 1577 “Karen Vail is one tough character.” —Kathy Reichs,
New York Times–bestselling author of
206 Bones
