Ashes, Ashes
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4.7 • 3 Ratings
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
A Manhattan forensic psychologist is targeted by a madman in this “taut, mind-blowing . . . Genuinely gripping thriller” (Booklist).
Dr. Barrett Conyors knows just how dangerous Richard Glash is. She’s studied him. An easily triggered paranoid schizophrenic obsessed with Charles Manson and John Wayne Gacy, he’s currently serving four life sentences for an appalling series of murders. What a terrible mistake it would be if he were to be transferred to a local, far less secure, hospital for the criminally insane. It’s what Glash’s bleeding-heart attorney Carla Phelps demands. It’s what Barrett fears. The nightmare comes true when Glash escapes. Taking Barrett and Carla hostage is Glash’s first move. His next is inconceivably chilling.
Barrett and Carla won’t be the only ones to suffer. What Glash has planned is to terrorize the entire city of New York. He’s sworn to become one of the most notorious mass murderers in recorded history—and he’s determined to make good on his promise.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This lackluster thriller from Atkins (The Cadaver's Ball) strains reader credulity to the breaking point. Attractive forensic psychiatrist Barrett Conyors receives an emergency call on the way to her Manhattan gynecologist to terminate the pregnancy caused by the rapist who killed her husband. She must act immediately to try to block a judge's decision to transfer four extremely dangerous murderers from a maximum security prison in Stormville, N.Y., to a less secure facility in Croton. When the transfer goes through, Richard Glash, the deadliest of the inmates, escapes and gets his hands on some bubonic plague. In addition, Glash takes two hostages, Conyors and Carla Phelps, her legal adversary (and a former patient she'd diagnosed as bipolar), who desperately try to stop his plan to unleash the Black Death on New York City. Unconvincing actions sequences undercut the suspense.
