Black lightning

Informationen zum Autor John Saul Klappentext John Saul knows how to make the blood run cold and the heart race wild with fear. Now the author of the New York Times bestsellers Creature and The Homing delivers a chilling novel of a convicted serial killer sentenced to death-and hell-bent on revenge. For five years Seattle journalist Anne Jeffers has pursued the horrifying story of a sadistic serial killer's bloody reign! capture! trial! and appeal-crusading to keep the wheels of justice churning toward the electric chair. Now the day of execution has come. A convicted killer will meet his end. Anne believes her long nightmare is over. But she's dead wrong. . . . Within days! a similar murder stuns the city. As the butcher stalks his next victims! creeping ever closer to her! Anne is seized by an icy unease! a haunting sense of connection to these unspeakable crimes. And! relentlessly! she hears the eerie echo of the dead man's last words to her: "Today won't end it. How will you feel! Anne? When I'm dead! and it all starts again! how will you feel?" In Black Lightning! John Saul strikes with a novel as electrifying as a jagged bolt from a pitch-dark sky! proving once again his inimitable genius for suspense. Praise for Black Lightning "His most effective thriller to date . . . [a] compelling read."-The Seattle Times "Electrifyingly scary."-San Jose Mercury News "One of Saul's best."-Publishers Weekly PROLOGUE     Five Years Ago— Experiment Number Forty-Seven   It was a ballet the man had danced so many times before that the first steps had become familiar enough to be performed automatically, with little if any thought at all. If he’d been asked, he couldn’t have said exactly what it was about this particular subject that first caught his attention, what particularly had piqued his interest in including her in his study. Certainly not age—he’d never been interested in the relative youth of any of his subjects.   Nor did sex matter. There were nearly as many men as women among his subjects; whatever gender imbalances existed in his study group were purely a matter of chance, and, he was certain, statistically insignificant. Not that his critics would ignore whatever imbalances existed when they began analyzing his work—he was all too aware that every possible nuance of his study would be minutely examined, that every possible interpretation, no matter how outlandish, would be applied to his choice of subjects.   But the fact was that he really hadn’t come up with any standard criteria for selecting participants in the experiments. Neither race nor gender, age nor sexual orientation, had counted.   Nor had he ever been particularly concerned about whether he invited the subject to join his study, or whether the subject was the one to make the first contact.   His current subject had made the first contact herself, as it happened, and he had almost rejected her on the basis that she seemed somehow familiar to him, that he knew her from somewhere. Familiarity was the single grounds for automatic ineligibility for the project, for he could never be certain of his own objectivity if he had previously existing feelings for the subject, whether positive or negative.   He’d first become aware of the woman a couple of weeks ago, when he’d happened into a shop near the university for a cup of coffee. He’d briefly noticed her when he’d come in, sitting near the door alone, a copy of the Seattle Herald spread out on the table before her. He’d paid little attention to her until he bought his own coffee and settled into a chair several tables away. Had he subconsciously known even then that he would include her in the project? He would have to consider that.   It had been she who first smiled at him, then come over and asked if she could join him. As he recalled it now, she said something...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: John Saul
• Verlag: Ballantine
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.06.1996
• EAN: 9780449225042
• ISBN: 978-0-449-22504-2
• Seiten: 448
• Abmessung: 107 mm x 175 mm x 28 mm
• Thema: Belletristik > Spannung > Krimis, Thriller, Spionage