L. Pender. Now, in , Pender faces his most terrifying foe to date. Like James Patterson and John Connolly, Jonathan Nasaw has proven time and again that he has an uncanny, almost eerie, knack for getting inside the labyrinthine and horrifying minds of the most deranged serial killers. In Nasaw first introduced Pender, a rumpled, endearingly flawed investigator who immediately won readers’ hearts. In Pender defeated a perverted psycho named Max, then went on to face The Machete Man in , called a “skin-crawling, gory psycho-thriller” by the When last we left Pender, in Nasaw’s sexually charged thriller , he took on a pair of mentally insane killers and nearly lost himself in the dark and blood-drenched recesses of their two twisted psyches. With his lust for terror and a frightening talent for getting deep under his readers’ skins, Nasaw promises to deliver more gripping action and unimaginably gruesome detail as he introduces readers to the bloodthirsty .