Laws of Wrath
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- $349.00
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- $349.00
Descripción editorial
When your family becomes the victim, justice isn’t just a job—it’s your only reason to breathe.
Detective Phee Freeman has seen his share of horrors. As an NYPD cop, he's tracked predators, faced violence, and survived betrayal—but nothing cuts deeper than discovering his own sibling, AJ, savagely murdered in a ritualistic crime. What starts as a personal tragedy quickly spirals into a far-reaching investigation, uncovering a string of eerily similar crimes—and a darkness more insidious than he ever imagined.
Phee and his partner, Detective Quincy Cavanaugh, are forced into an uneasy alliance with a brilliant yet deranged cult leader whose insights may be their only way forward—or their greatest mistake. As bodies pile up and tensions rise, the detectives must face the terrifying possibility that the person helping them profile the killer may also be orchestrating the murders from within.
From actor-director and acclaimed author Eriq La Salle comes a razor-sharp dark thriller layered with psychological suspense—what James Patterson calls “a white-knuckled treat.”
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La Salle's second thriller featuring NYPD detectives Phee Freeman and Quincy Cavanaugh (after 2022's Laws of Depravity) is another nail-biter that never sacrifices character for plot. Freeman and Cavanaugh have become celebrities after stopping a killer who targeted New York clergy. Their moment of glory is derailed, though, by news that Freeman's older sibling A.J. has been murdered: the killer removed A.J.'s eyelids and internal organs before abandoning the corpse in Manhattan's Chinatown. Freeman is wracked with guilt, having been estranged from A.J. for years, and winds up working on A.J.'s murder with Cavanaugh. The investigation gets even more complex when the partners learn that several murders with a similar m.o. were committed in Queens three years earlier. Police believed that killer was Daria Zibik, who's since been incarcerated, and now fear a copycat is at work. La Salle treads lurid territory without straining credulity. Fans of Jeffery Deaver will be pleased.
