I Am Death
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3.8 • 5 Ratings
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
In this pulse-pounding thriller from bestselling writer Chris Carter, criminal behavior psychologist turned LAPD detective Robert Hunter finds himself engaged in a brutal game to the finish with a ruthless opponent. But no matter what moves Hunter makes, death is coming….
At the Los Angeles International Airport, the body of a twenty-year-old woman is discovered. The autopsy reveals that she had been tortured and murdered in a most bizarre way—but the surprises don’t end there. The killer likes to play, and he left something behind for the cops to find.
LAPD Detective Robert Hunter is assigned to the case but almost immediately a second body turns up. Surrounded by new challenges as every day passes, Hunter finds himself chasing a monster—one with a dark past and whose desire to hurt people and thirst for murder can never be quenched.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A surfeit of gratuitous violence mars Carter's sequel to 2015's An Evil Mind. Det. Robert Hunter and his partner, Carlos Garcia, who make up the LAPD's ultraviolent crimes unit, investigate the murder of college student Nicole Wilson, who was abducted from the house where she was babysitting in Laurel Canyon. Wilson was tortured for more than five days before her body was left in a field near L.A. International Airport, a note written in blood saying "I Am Death" stuck down her throat. Soon more victims are tortured, their horrible deaths discussed in lurid detail by the detectives. A parallel story, in which an 11-year-old boy is kidnapped and beaten for years, isn't much easier to take. References to behavioral psychology and how sociopathy develops add little to the story. A somewhat clever twist at the end can't salvage the shallow characterizations and banal dialogue.
