Synopses & Reviews
Ethan Black delivers another lightning-paced, darkly compelling novel of suspense featuring NYPD detective Conrad Voort -- in which a tragic error from the past holds the key to stopping an oddly sympathetic killer bent on the worst kind of revenge.Three more by tonight. Your fault. That's the dire message Conrad Voort receives on his birthday, standing over a dead stranger. With both his career and his life in jeopardy, Voort races against time to hunt down an ingenious killer whose threat has sent the city into a state of panic.
But as more victims fall, Voort realizes that a forgotten incident from his days as a rookie cop may, in fact, be the driving force behind the slayings. For the day's terror is not merely the senseless act of a demented mind, but the impassioned vengeance of a man who has suffered loss beyond endurance. And Conrad Voort is going to pay....
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The Washington Post[A] clever plot....Conrad Voort is not your garden-variety detective.
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Los Angeles TimesGreat writing. Great suspense. Great action. Wonderful reading.
Synopsis
Critically acclaimed Ethan Black's wickedly clever and hard-driving page-turner thriller finds New York detective Conrad Voort squaring off against a killer hell-bent on taking out four victims in a single day. The birthday gift is from a dead stranger. The card reads, "Three more by tonight. Your fault." For Detective Conrad Voort, what begins as a day of celebration turns into a nightmare as he races to stop an ingenious and unsettlingly sympathetic murderer from perpetrating a killing spree in Manhattan. Voort and the killer must reinvent themselves in a life-and-death struggle, battle the past, and become more daring--all by midnight.