At 9 am on 31st December a man gets onto the packed downwards escalator of a metro station and fires a silenced machine gun through a paper bag. He escapes without being spotted in the confusion caused by dozens of killed and injured people - crushed in the panic as well as shot. Then a note is delivered to the mayor of Washington, D.C., demanding $20 million dollars, or the writer will instruct the gunman to strike again, at 4.00, 9.00 and midnight. The mayor decides to pay up. But then a man is killed in a hit and run accident - his fingerprints match the prints on the note. With the brains behind the operation dead, there's no way of stopping the gunman killing again, and again, and again...
The only thing the FBI have to go on is the note. And Parker Kincaid, forensic document expert, is the only man who can stop the killer.
Jeff Deaver was a lawyer before quitting work to become a full-time writer. He divides his time between Washington, DC and California..
Title: The Devil's Teardrop
Author: Deaver, Jeffery
ISBN: 9780340712528
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Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Publication Date: 1999-10-07
Number of Pages: 448
Weight: 0.4991 kg
Deaver is a terrific storyteller, and he takes the reader on a rollercaoster of suspense, violence and mystery . . . Good entertainment - Susanna Yager, Daily Telegraph
'Principal characters unusually vivid and sympathetic.... Rapidly paced, wholly engrossing tale' - Publisher's Weekly
Jeffery Deaver's fiendish new suspense thriller . . . Amazing as it sounds, Deaver makes the intellectual puzzle the most thrilling part of his high-anxiety drama, which twists, turns and leaves us weak - The New York Times Book Review
'Deaver is a terrific storyteller, and he takes the reader on a rollercaoster of suspense, violence and mystery . . . Good entertainment' Susanna Yager, Daily Telegraph
'Jeffery Deaver's fiendish new suspense thriller . . . Amazing as it sounds, Deaver makes the intellectual puzzle the most thrilling part of his high-anxiety drama, which twists, turns and leaves us weak' The New York Times Book Review
Principal characters unusually vivid and sympathetic.... Rapidly paced, wholly engrossing tale - Publisher's Weekly
A truly engrossing thriller. Psychological thriller writers do not come much better than Deaver. His cogent plotting, smooth characterisation and (best of all) psychological profiling of his villains is all nonpareil - The Times Crime Supplement
Another winner - Crime Time review