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PublisherRandom House Publishing Group

ISBN-100812969839

ISBN-139780812969832

eBay Product ID (ePID)46990919

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Book TitleDead Aim : a Novel

Number of Pages400 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicThrillers / Suspense, Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators

Publication Year2006

GenreFiction

AuthorThomas Perry

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight12.3 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.2 in

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Synopsis"Perry succeeds with Dead Aim on all fronts. It's both chilling and absorbing, the right mix in a thriller." New York Daily News Robert Mallon has lived for ten quiet years in affluent Santa Barbara, California, when an encounter on a beach with a mysterious young woman shatters his peaceful, carefully constructed life. Despite Mallon's desperate attempts, he loses her, and becomes obsessed with discovering why. He hires detective Lydia Marks to uncover the secrets of this stranger's life, and what they learn propels them into a terrifying world of sinister secrets and deadly hatreds. Targeting Mallon is the master hunter Parish, a man with an expert understanding of evil, who preys on rich people's desires for dominance and revenge. Mallon is drawn into a lethal struggle with this deadly adversaryand then another, and another, and another., In this explosive new novel by the Edgar Award-winning author of "The Butcher's Boy," an unsuspecting man tries to help a young woman on the edge--and finds himself drawn into a lethal struggle with a deadly adversary . . . and then another, and another, and another., "Perry succeeds with Dead Aim on all fronts. It's both chilling and absorbing, the right mix in a thriller." -New York Daily News Robert Mallon has lived for ten quiet years in affluent Santa Barbara, California, when an encounter on a beach with a mysterious young woman shatters his peaceful, carefully constructed life. Despite Mallon's desperate attempts, he loses her, and becomes obsessed with discovering why. He hires detective Lydia Marks to uncover the secrets of this stranger's life, and what they learn propels them into a terrifying world of sinister secrets and deadly hatreds. Targeting Mallon is the master hunter Parish, a man with an expert understanding of evil, who preys on rich people's desires for dominance and revenge. Mallon is drawn into a lethal struggle with this deadly adversary-and then another, and another, and another.