Book description
It begins with a letter . . . The letter contains a request ? think of
a number, any number ? and a sealed envelope. Inside the envelope is
that number. When Dave Gurney, retired NYPD homicide detective, is
contacted by an old college acquaintance about some startling letters
he?s been receiving, it is at first little more than a diverting but
sinister puzzle. Until the acquaintance is brutally killed. Suddenly
Gurney finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation that makes
no sense. The killer seems to have known his victim intimately. How else
was he able to predict his victim's thoughts, even his actions? How did
he know his darkest secrets? The killer is smart and he is playing with
the police. Gurney needs to be smarter if he?s going to catch him, but
this seems only to be the beginning. And the killer alone knows where it
will end. Written with pace, style, intelligence, teasing puzzles and
lots of tension. The number I?m thinking of is 1!
John Verdon has held several executive positions with Manhattan
advertising firms but, like his protagonist, recently relocated with
his wife to rural upstate New York.Think of a Number is his
first novel.
