Synopses & Reviews
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Bizarre and cryptic messages found on a pair of corpses in Mobile, Alabama, launch junior police detective Carson Ryder and veteran cop Harry Nautilus into a desperate search for a mysterious killer. With the body count rising, Ryder descends into his family's terrifying past by seeking advice from his brother, a violent, taunting psychopath convicted of similarly heinous crimes. Ryder soon confronts not only his past fears and nightmares, but also the knowledge that someone he knows is the next target. And time is running out.
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"A serial killer novel with a difference: smartly written, densely plotted, and almost too clever....The whole story is told in prose as inventive as well, as a fight to the death between embattled virtue and monstrous evil ought to be." Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)
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"Kerley's plot is a treasure chest of interlocked pieces, each holding a secret, a link in the chain connecting the novel's characters to the demons in their various closets. Kerley isn't the new Ridley Pearson quite yet, but don't bet against him." Booklist
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"Kerley writes in a thrusting style that pushes the action from crime scene to autopsy table....There's a future in this." Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review
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"A pitch-perfect psychological thriller." Library Journal (Starred Review)
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"Kerley's first novel is explosively good, a nuanced look at the dark underbelly of contemporary society that reads like a cross between Thomas Harris and F. Scott Fitzgerald." The Baltimore Sun
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"Kerley writes of the Mobile, Alabama, area with great authority, paying some tribute to the sometimes uneasy mix of the rural South and nouveau Cosmopolitan aspects of the area....Let us hope and pray for more from Kerley and Ryder..." BookReporter.com
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"The Hundredth Man has a crackerjack plot and wonderfully original rapid-fire prose. Jack Kerley is a writer to watch. And read." David Baldacci, New York Times bestselling author of Split Second
Synopsis
Bizarre messages carved into the flesh of two corpses in Mobile, Alabama, launch a special unit devoted to solving psychotic crimes. These messages also launch Detective Carson Ryder into a nightmare with only one weapon his own terrifying past.
About the Author
Jack Kerley spent twenty years in a successful advertising career before writing The Hundredth Man, his first novel. An avid angler and outdoorsman, he lives in Newport, Kentucky.