The 7th Victim

By Alan Jacobson
(Vanguard Press, Hardcover, 9781593154943, 352pp.)

Publication Date: November 2008

Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Mass Market Paperback, Compact Disc

Categories: Psychological, Suspense

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Selected by Indie Booksellers for the November 2008 Indie Notables
“This page-turner raises the bar for suspense, especially for thrillers dealing with profiling, serial killers, and modern forensics. With a fabulous lead character, obvious painstaking research, and great plot twists, this book stands way ahead of the pack!”
-- Jeff Broyles, Bay Book & Video Co, Half Moon Bay, CA


Description

The Dead Eyes Killer lurks in the backyard of the famed FBI Profiling Unit. His brutal murders confound the local task force, despite the gifted profiling skills of Special Agent Karen Vail. But along with Vail’s insight and expertise comes considerable personal and professional baggage.

On leave pending a review of her assault on her abusive ex-husband, Vail must battle forces determined to bring her down, as she fights to find Dead Eyes before he murders more young women. But the seventh victim is the key to all that stirs this killer...the key that will unlock secrets perhaps too painful for Vail to bear. These are secrets that threaten to destroy her, secrets that will bring down her storied career. For Karen Vail, the truth rests at the heart of a lie. And uncovering it could get her killed...

With material meticulously researched during seven years of study with the Bureau’s vaunted profiling unit, Alan Jacobson brings refreshing realism and unprecedented accuracy to his pages.

The 7th Victim is a page-turner as only Alan Jacobson can write, with a stunning twist of an ending that will satisfy even the most discerning thriller reader.




About the Author

Alan Jacobson is the bestselling author of the critically acclaimed thrillers False Accusations and The Hunted. Alan has a degree in English and a doctorate in chiropractic medicine. He achieved prominence as an Agreed Medical Examiner and was subsequently appointed to the position of Qualified Medical Evaluator by the state of California.

Both The 7th Victim and his next thriller, Hard Target, have been optioned for film by a major Hollywood producer. A native New Yorker, Alan migrated to California, where he cracks spines of a different sort.
 




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