Edited by anniekins at 10-10-2023 03:20
Psychologist Alan Gregory is living through a season ofdiscontent. With a new daughter, a wonderful wife, and a prospering career, hehas little to complain about and lots of regrets: past cases that won't let himgo, patients who don't get better, and a growing unease with keeping secrets.But Gregory has two new patients who will drag him out of hisintrospection--and dare him to enter a storm of injustice and revenge. FBI special agent Kelda James is a hero, a woman who as arookie agent made a choice, drew her gun, and saved a life, taking another. NowKelda is hiding from the world a secret pain that is gradually crippling herbody--and she has turned to Alan Gregory to help free her from the prison ofher pain. Then Kelda refers a patient to Gregory, who is terrifyingly dangerousto them both. Tom Clone served thirteen years on Colorado's death row fora crime he claimed he didn't commit--until an FBI agent dug up evidence thatset him free. The agent's name: Kelda James. With both Kelda and Clone tellinghim their innermost secrets, Alan Gregory becomes the one person who can piecetogether an extraordinary puzzle--of two unsolved violent deaths of vulnerablewomen, of a man who may be innocent or may be very lucky, and of the strange,fatal attraction between two people trapped in a horrific plot to getrevenge--at any price. A thriller that delivers a stunning body-blow of a surpriseending, captures lives colliding at unpredictable angles, probing the dangerouslies people tell to each other and themselves. In this astonishing work by anovelist at the height of his powers, Stephen White brilliantly blendsthrilling action and breakneck pacing with unrivaled insight into the humanmind, heart, and psyche.
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