Author: Cody McFadyen
- Fiction
- Ediciones Urano
- ISBN: 9788415139652
- Release Date: 04-30-2013
Synopsis
La agente Smoky Barret conoce muy bien el lado oscuro del alma humana. Ella misma tiene el cuerpo y el espíritu marcados por las horribles cicatrices que le han dejado los asesinos a los que ha dado caza durante años. Ahora se enfrenta a un caso muy extraño: la policía encuentra a toda una familia asesinada y la única superviviente, Sarah, aparece cubierta de sangre. Ella sólo quiere hablar con Smoky, a la que narra la terrible historia de su vida marcada por la venganza de quien llama el extraño, un hombre dispuesto a acabar con cualquiera que ofrezca a Sarah una pizca de amor. Smoky se enfrenta a un sádico inteligente y despiadado al que va a ser muy difícil detener.
Special Agent Smoky Barrett Tracks Down a Kiler Who Breaks All the Rules. "I want to talk to Smoky Barrett of I'll kill myself."The girl is sixteen, at the scene of a grisly triple homicide, and has a gun to her head. She claims "The Stranger" killed her adoptive family, that he's been following her all her life, killing everyone she ever loved, and that no one believes her.No one has. Until now. Special Agent Smoky Barret is head of the violent crimes unit in Los Angeles, the part of the FBI reserved for tracking down the worst of the worst. Her team has been handpicked from among the nation's elite law enforcement specialists and they are as obsessed and relentless as the psychos they hunt; they'll have to be to deal with this case. For another vicious double homicide reveals a killer embarked on a dark crusade of trauma and death: an "artist" who's molding sixteen-year-old Sarah into the perfect victim—and the ultimate weapon. But Smoky Barrett has another, more personal reason for catching The Stranger—an adopted daughter and a new life that are worth protecting at any cost. This time Smoky is going to have to put it all on the line. Because The Stranger is all too real, all too close, and all too relentless. And when he finally shows his face, if she's not ready to confront her worst feat, Smoky won't have time to do anything but die.
