Blood Dreams

Zusatztext " A good read for fans of other serial-killer books and the TV show, Criminal Minds ."— Booklist Informationen zum Autor Kay Hooper , who has more than thirteen million copies of her books in print worldwide, has won numerous awards and high praise for her novels. She lives in North Carolina. Klappentext New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper takes readers on a terrifying manhunt for a serial killer even the Special Crimes Unit may not be able to stop. Dani Justice knows all about monsters. They haunt her dreams-and her life. But she never expected to find herself on the trail of a real flesh-and-blood predator so cunning that he's eluded the best law enforcement could send against him; and so deadly that he doesn't hesitate to kill even a senator's daughter. Or a cop. Dani doesn't want to hunt this killer, but she doesn't have a choice. She alone commands a weapon powerful enough to stop him. And she knows something even Bishop of the FBI's Special Crimes Unit doesn't know. Dani knows how the hunt ends. It ends in fire. And blood. And death. What she doesn't know is who will survive. Leseprobe Prologue I brought to life, Dani thought. The vision. The smell of blood turned her stomach, the thick, acrid smoke burned her eyes, and what had been for so long a wispy, dreamlike memory was now jarring, throat-clogging reality. For just an instant she was paralyzed. It was all coming true. Despite everything she had done, everything she had tried to do, despite all the warnings, once again it was all– “Dani?” Hollis appeared at her side, seemingly out of the smoke, gun drawn, blue eyes sharp even squinted against the stench. “Where is it?” “I–I can’t. I mean, I don’t think I can–” “Dani, you’re all we’ve got. You’re all they’ve got. Do you understand that?” Reaching desperately for strength she wasn’t at all sure she had, Dani said, “If somebody had just listened to me when it mattered–” “Stop looking back. There’s no sense in it. Now is all that counts. Which way, Dani?” Impossible as it was, Dani had to force herself to concentrate on the stench of blood she knew neither of the others could smell. A blood trail that was all they had to guide them. She nearly gagged, then pointed. “That way. Toward the back. But . . .” “But what?” “Down. Lower. There’s a basement level.” Stairs. She remembered stairs. Going down them. Down into hell. “It isn’t on the blueprints.” “I know.” “Bad place to get trapped in a burning building,” Hollis noted. “The roof could fall in on us. Easily.” Bishop appeared out of the smoke as suddenly as Hollis had, weapon in hand, his face stone, eyes haunted. “We have to hurry.” “Yeah,” Hollis replied, “we get that. Burning building. Maniacal killer. Good seriously outnumbered by evil. Bad situation.” Her words and tone were flippant, but her gaze on his face was anything but, intent and measuring. “You forgot potential victim in maniacal killer’s hands,” her boss said, not even trying to match her tone. “Never. Dani, did you see the basement, or are you feeling it?” “Stairs. I saw them.” The weight on her shoulders felt like the world, so maybe that was what was pressing her down. Or . . . “And what I feel now ...He’s lower. He’s underneath us.” “Then we look for stairs.” Dani coughed. She was trying to think, trying to remember. But dreams recalled were such dim, insubstantial things, even vision dreams sometimes, and there was no way for her to be sure she was remembering clearly. She was overwhelmingly conscious of precious time passing and looked at her wrist, at the bulky digital watch that told her it was 2:47 p.m. on Tuesday, October 28. Odd. She never wore a watch. Why was she wearing one now? And why a watch that looked so . . . alien on...

Product details

• Authors: Kay Hooper
• Publisher: Bantam Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.11.2008
• EAN: 9780553589252
• ISBN: 978-0-553-58925-2
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 107 mm x 175 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Bishop/Special Crimes Unit; Bishop/Special Crimes Unit Nov
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense