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Overview
David Vandemark is nobody's victim - and an avenger like no one's ever seen. Years ago, he was robbed of everything he knew - his family, his identity, his very soul. He was also left with a strange gift, the power to read not just the minds of other people but their lives, their pasts, their desires. And burned into him was a new resolve: to stalk the human predators - drug dealers, child molesters, and serial killers - who threaten the innocent. To track his prey, Vandemark uses his psychic powers, shifting stealthily from one identity to another with each target. So far, he has claimed twenty victims. Now he is on the trail of the Latino Killer, a vicious psychopath who is butchering Hispanic families all across New York City, leaving terror in his wake. The only survivor of a family that has been destroyed in the madness, Angela Quinones is Vandemark's key to finding the monster. As they begin to fall in love, she becomes the key to much more than that, awakening the memory of who he once was and returning David Vandemark to the living even as the Latino Killer is mapping their deaths. Shadowing them all is federal agent Ira Levitt, who has followed Vandemark for seven years in what has been his most fascinating and frustrating case ever. Having guessed that the vigilante would hunt the Latino Killer, Levitt feels he is finally on the verge of catching his man. But when he senses that the Latino Family Murders conceal an evil more dangerous, more "civilized" than anything he's ever faced, he is confronted with an impossible dilemma: to close in on Vandemark or, risking everything, to join forces with him to bring down the Latino Killer and stop the bloodshed.Editorials
Publishers Weekly -
A telepathic serial killer whose victims are serial killers and the FBI agent who has been tracking him for seven years mix it up in this energetic but derivative thriller, the authors' third collaboration (after Among Madmen and Lady L). David Vandemark was a lawyer until an elevator accident left him comatose long enough for his wife and kids to be slain by a serial killer known as Mr. Clean. The accident also left Vandemark able to read minds-a trait he put to use as a vigilante to hunt down Mr. Clean, who was the first of his 20 victims, and which has remained hidden from Ira Levitt, the fed who lives to take Vandemark down. Now Vandemark has a new target, the killer behind the so-called Latino Family murders in New York. But once he arrives in Manhattan, Vandemark comes up against a powerful conspiracy and meets a beautiful woman who helps him to remember the man he once was-with both events prompting him to go for help to agent Levitt. Brisk pacing and some slickly wrought violence will keep readers turning the pages. The narrative's reliance on pop psychology (love as the cure for obsessive split personality, for instance) takes the edge off the chills, however, and the authors' twist ending won't surprise too many readers; ultimately, despite its nifty premise, this is an exercise in formula. Film rights optioned by Amblin Entertainment; foreign rights sold to 10 countries. (Feb.)Library Journal
A serial killer with a heartbless him! He stalks drug dealers and child molesters exclusively and teams up with an FBI agent to help nab a less discriminating colleague: the psychopathic "Latino Killer." With a simultaneous audio release and movie rights sold to Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, this first novel should get plenty of hype.Book Details
Published
February 1, 1996
Publisher
Mysterious Pr
Pages
336
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780446519854