Synopses & Reviews
Once an accomplished plastic surgeon, Trevor Lucas started using his scalpel to do very bad things...
Locked in a Boston psychiatric hospital, Lucas is holding the ward hostage-and performing grisly "operations" on his prisoners...
Lucas, calling for forensic psychiatrist Frank Clevenger, is willing to strike a deal...
What Lucas knows about Clevenger could ruin the psychiatrist. What Clevenger can find out about Lucas could save the hostages. And he's got 24 hours to do it...
As Clevenger feverishly delves into Lucas' past, what he discovers is chilling, disturbing, and all too familiar. For Clevenger can't help but wonder if his proximity to killers and madmen in coincidence, or something much more complex: Projection.
Review
"First-rate fiction!" --Robert B. Parker
"Frightening...superbly executed." --Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Clevenger...is a remarkable creation." --Booklist
About the Author
Keith Ablow received his medical degree from Johns Hopkins and completed his psychiatric residency at New England Medical Center. A practicing psychiatrist with a speciality in forensics, he has written essays for T
he Baltimore Sun, The Boston Herald, U.S. News and
World Report, U.S.A Today, and the
Washington Post. The author of several works of nonfiction, Ablow lives in Chelsea, Mass.