John Katzenbach

LA TERCERA ENTREGA DE LA SAGA DE EL PSICOANALISTA, EL THRILLER PSICOL GICO QUE CAMBI LAS REGLAS DEL JUEGO. La vida del doctor Ricky Starks est marcada por una oscuridad persistente. Quince a os han pasado desde que sufriera el primer ataque de una familia de psic patas. En dos ocasiones, Starks ha logrado escapar de las garras mortales de esta familia, incluso presenciando la muerte de uno de ellos. Sin embargo, la sombra de la tragedia se cierne de nuevo sobre l cuando un detective lo contacta para informarle que uno de sus pacientes se ha suicidado. Estar n detr s del extra o incidente Merlin y Virgil, los retorcidos hermanos del fallecido Rumpelstiltskin? Muy pronto los acontecimientos se desbocan y el psicoanalista, acostumbrado a ser un salvavidas para quienes luchan contra los demonios de su mente, intentar salvarse a s mismo. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION THE THIRD INSTALLMENT OF THE ANALYST SERIES, THE PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER THAT CHANGED THE RULES OF THE GAME. Dr. Ricky Starks' life is marked by a persistent darkness. It's been fifteen years since he suffered the first attack from a family of psychopaths. Twice, Starks has managed to escape that family's deadly grasps, even witnessing the death of one of them. However, the shadow of tragedy looms over him once again when a detective contacts him to inform him that one of his patients has committed suicide. Could Merlin and Virgil, the twisted brothers of the deceased Rumpelstiltskin, be behind the strange incident? Soon, events spiral out of control, and the psychoanalyst, who is used to being a lifeline for those battling the demons in their minds, will attempt to save himself.

Feliz 53 cumplea os, doctor. Bienvenido al primer d a de su muerte. As comienza el an nimo que recibe Frederick Starks, psicoanalista con una larga experiencia y una vida tranquila. Starks tendr que hurgar en su memoria y emplear toda su astucia para, en quince d as, averiguar qui n es el autor de la amenazadora misiva. De no conseguir su objetivo, deber elegir entre suicidarse o ser testigo de c mo, uno tras otro, sus familiares y conocidos mueren por obra de un psic pata asesino, decidido a llevar hasta el fin su sed de venganza. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Happy fifty third birthday, Doctor. Welcome to the first day of your death. Dr. Frederick Starks, a New York psychoanalyst, has just received a mysterious, threatening letter. Now he finds himself in the middle of a horrific game designed by a man who calls himself Rumplestiltskin. The rules: in two weeks, Starks must guess his tormentor's identity. If Starks succeeds, he goes free. If he fails, Rumplestiltskin will destroy, one by one, fifty-two of Dr. Starks' loved ones--unless the good doctor agrees to kill himself. In a blistering race against time, Starks' is at the mercy of a psychopath's devious game of vengeance. He must find a way to stop the madman--before he himself is driven mad... The psychoanalyst is plunged into a horrific game designed by a man who calls himself Rumplestiltskin. In two weeks, Starks must guess the man's identity and the source of his fury. If he succeeds, he goes free. If he fails, Rumplestiltskin will kill one of Dr. Starks' loved ones each week. He needs to find a way to stop him.

Timothy Warner, a PhD student who goes by the nickname "Moth," wakes up on his ninety-ninth day of sobriety with an intense craving for a drink. He immediately calls his uncle Ed, a former alcoholic and now successful psychiatrist who has become Moth's sponsor and father figure. Ed promises to meet him at an AA meeting later that day but never shows up. Knowing that his uncle is not the unreliable type, Moth bikes to his office and discovers a grisly scene--his uncle lying in a pool of blood, shot through the temple. Deeply shaken, Moth calls 911; the police pronounce the death a suicide. Two words are scrawled across Ed's prescription pad: "My fault." But Moth refuses to believe that his uncle would take his own life. Devastated and confused, he calls on the only person he thinks he can trust: Andrea Martine, an ex-girlfriend he has not spoken to in four years who is struggling through her own trauma. Each battling their inner demons, Moth and Andy travel into dark, unfamiliar territory, intent on finding out the truth about Ed's death and circling ever closer to a devious mind that will flinch at nothing to achieve his own deadly goal. The Dead Student is a tense, penetrating novel from an unrivaled investigator of that most primal human motive--revenge.

Three ordinary women with nothing in common. They are different ages, come from different backgrounds, and lead drastically different lives. The only thing that binds them together is their red hair--and that each of them has been targeted for murder. When these women receive chilling letters in the mail from a killer known only as the Big Bad Wolf, their lives are upended. The "Red"s spend every waking moment in fear as the Wolf stalks them, biding his time, searching for the perfect opportunity to complete his master plan. But the one thing this devious killer didn't count on was the Reds discovering each other. These three women, using clues left by the Wolf, band together to protect one another from their deadly predator. And when law enforcement refuses to pay them any attention, the Reds' only hope for survival is to turn the tables and beat the Wolf at his own game. In this riveting novel, filled with suspense that only a master like John Katzenbach could write, the Reds must track down the Wolf before he silences them all forever.

John Katzenbach's fourth novel, now back in print and with a new preface from the author, is brilliantly suspenseful, filled with the remarkable psychological insight for which Katzenbach has become revered. When burnt-out reporter Matt Cowart receives a letter from a death row inmate pleading his innocence, he is tempted to dismiss it out of hand. Sure, they're all innocent. But as the Miami newspaperman digs into the case of Robert Earl Ferguson, an African American given the death penalty for the brutal slaying of a white girl, he begins to believe that Ferguson is the real victim of hate and prejudice. And if he doesn't act, the wrong man is going to be executed. In the months that follow, Cowart's investigative articles not only set Ferguson free, but make Cowart a celebrity and win him a Pulitzer Prize--and set in motion a new chain of unimaginable horror. For there is a monster out there, and he is not through with killing. Chillingly complex, Just Cause is a powerhouse story about confronting our worst fears, in society, and in ourselves.

"Chilling. . . . Day of Reckoning is dynamite."--Chicago Tribune John Katzenbach's third novel, now back in print, is the spellbinding story of a family in jeopardy and what happens when that family is pushed to the brink. Megan and Duncan Richards are no longer the radical activists they were in 1968. He's a banker, and she works in real estate. They have a fine house and three kids they adore. Their youth is safely stashed away until the day Duncan answers his office phone and gets the message he's been dreading from the woman he's spent two decades trying to forget. She called herself Tanya. In 1968, she was the beautiful, charismatic leader of northern California's radical Phoenix Brigade. She was the one who had assured Duncan and Megan that no one would be hurt in the robbery she'd so brilliantly orchestrated, but when it turned into a slaughter and nearly everyone involved was captured or killed, she laid the blame on them. The Richardses escaped. But now, after eighteen years in prison, Tanya herself is free again, poised to avenge her version of what happened on that blood-drenched day so long ago.

You do not know me, but I know you. I have decided to call you: Red One. Red Two. Red Three. I know each of you is lost in the woods. And just like the little girl in the fairy tale, you have been selected to die...' Karen, Sarah and Jordan have nothing in common aside from their hair colour. Red. To the man who has been watching their every move for months, this is enough. Their lives are now in his hands, their stories will only end when he chooses to reveal himself, unless they can find him first...