Pursuit - Thomas Perry

Pursuit

By Thomas Perry

  • Release Date: 2001-12-18
  • Genre: Hard-Boiled Mysteries
4.5 Score: 4.5 (From 147 Ratings)

Book Synopsis

Thirteen bodies are discovered inside a small Louisville restaurant just after closing time. The ferocity and apparent randomness of the crime prompt the police to call in criminology professor Daniel Millikan-they want a profile of the murderer. Millikan determines that the crime was committed not by a psychopath but by a professional killer of consummate skill and total lack of feeling: “I think that the one who did it is one of the special cases. He’s somebody we can’t afford to have walking down a street where our families walk.” When Millikan learns that the investigation has come to a complete standstill, he commits himself to an unorthodox decision. The only hope of stopping this killer and ending the bloodshed is to employ Roy Prescott, an expert in the narrow specialty of hunting down murderers through methods the police can’t-and wouldn’t-use.

And so begins a stunning novel by Thomas Perry, “one of the most thoroughly satisfying writers around” (Lawrence Block), a death match fought from one end of the country to the other by two enemies who both understand that only one of them will be alive at the end.

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Latest Impressions

  • Scary

    4
    By Sleeve5750
    The killer is presented as being normal except for his need and skill to kill. Scary to think there could be someone out there like him.
  • Wow, great read!

    5
    By Luceagain
    Well written and fast moving, the author never lets off the gas. Characters were well developed and the plot was just kept unfolding. An in-depth look at the workings of a psychopaths mind.
  • Why not 5 stars you ask?

    4
    By Land Professional
    Simple. This book had profanity. Not a gratuitous amount but enough that I wouldn't want to have listened to the audiobook when my wife and children were in the car with me. But I loved the story. It really sucked me in!