Book description
TV reporter Dan Groves and Detective Adam Breen are reunited to try to
save a young girl who's been abducted by a psychopath, a once brilliant
man tormented by war and the death of his best friend and utterly bent
on taking his revenge on society. A masked attacker breaks into women's
homes, threatens them with a gun, but never speaks and steals nothing of
value, only a document bearing their name. He leaves behind a note
addressed to Dan, boasting of plans for a great crime, one which will
shock the country. A police marksman kills two men in separate but
frighteningly similar shootings. Detectives are suspicious, but is it
murder? Their only clue is a cryptic password they find hidden at the
man's home and a possible motive festering in his past. Another woman is
attacked, another document taken, another note left. It claims each
contains a code revealing the great crime. And it's growing closer, hour
by passing hour. Dan is put under police guard as it becomes clear the
man is stalking him. Adam and Dan face baffling questions. Why does the
attacker steal only documents bearing the women's names? How to solve
the riddles contained in the notes? Code breaking experts are called in
to help. But before they can, a young girl is abducted. An intensive
manhunt is launched. The battle to solve the clues in the letters grows
more frantic. The pressure is intense. But as each riddle is cracked,
the man is always one step ahead of the police - until the increasingly
desperate search converges on Dartmoor. TV reporter Dan Groves and
Detective Adam Breen are reunited to try to save a young girl who's been
abducted by a psychopath, a once brilliant man tormented by war and the
death of his best friend and utterly bent on taking his revenge on
society. A masked attacker breaks into women's homes, threatens them
with a gun, but never speaks and steals nothing of value, only a
document bearing their name. He leaves behind a note addressed to Dan,
boasting of plans for a great crime, one which will shock the country. A
police marksman kills two men in separate but frighteningly similar
shootings. Detectives are suspicious, but is it murder? Their only clue
is a cryptic password they find hidden at the man's home and a possible
motive festering in his past. Another woman is attacked, another
document taken, another note left. It claims each contains a code
revealing the great crime. And it's growing closer, hour by passing
hour. Dan is put under police guard as it becomes clear the man is
stalking him. Adam and Dan face baffling questions. Why does the
attacker steal only documents bearing the women's names? How to solve
the riddles contained in the notes? Code breaking experts are called in
to help. But before they can, a young girl is abducted. An intensive
manhunt is launched. The battle to solve the clues in the letters grows
more frantic. The pressure is intense. But as each riddle is cracked,
the man is always one step ahead of the police - until the increasingly
desperate search converges on Dartmoor.
