The Devil's Teardrop - Softcover

'Principal characters unusually vivid and sympathetic... Rapidly paced, wholly engrossing tale' - Publisher's Weekly Deaver is a terrific storyteller, and he takes the reader on a rollercoaster of suspense, violence and mystery 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 '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 An engrossing thriller...cogent plotting, smooth characterisation and (best of all) psychological profiling of his villains is all nonpareil The Times Another winner Crime Time review A top-rate thriller that will have you reading well into the early hours of the morning Bolton Evening News The master of the plot twist is back Coventry Evening Telegraph

At 9 am on 31st December a man gets onto the packed 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. A note is delivered to the mayor of Washington, D.C., demanding $20 million, or the writer will instruct the gunman to strike again, at 4.00, 8.00 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.