Mister X. John Lutz

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Название Mister X
Автор произведения John Lutz
Жанр Ужасы и Мистика
Серия A Frank Quinn Novel
Издательство Ужасы и Мистика
Год выпуска 0
isbn 9780786025954



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      Highest Praise for

       John Lutz

      “John Lutz knows how to make you shiver.”

      —Harlan Coben

      “Lutz offers up a heart-pounding roller coaster of a tale.”

      —Jeffery Deaver

      “John Lutz is one of the masters of the police novel.”

      —Ridley Pearson

      “John Lutz is a major talent.”

      —John Lescroart

      “I’ve been a fan for years.”

      —T. Jefferson Parker

      “John Lutz just keeps getting better and better.”

      —Tony Hillerman

      “Lutz ranks with such vintage masters of big-city murder as Lawrence Block and Ed McBain.”

      —St. Louis Post-Dispatch

      “Lutz is among the best.”

      —San Diego Union

      “Lutz knows how to seize and hold the reader’s imagination.”

      —Cleveland Plain Dealer

      “It’s easy to see why he’s won an Edgar and two Shamuses.”

      —Publishers Weekly

      Chill of Night

      “Since Lutz can deliver a hard-boiled P.I. novel or a bloody thriller with equal ease, it’s not a surprise to find him applying his skills to a police procedural in Chill of Night. But the ingenuity of the plot shows that Lutz is in rare form.”

      —The New York Times Book Review

      “Lutz keeps the suspense high, populating his story with a collection of unique characters who resonate with the reader, making this one an ideal beach read.”

      —Publishers Weekly

      “A dazzling tour de force…compelling, absorbing.”

      —St. Louis Post-Dispatch

      “A great read! Lutz kept me in suspense right up to the end.”

      —Midwest Book Review

      Night Kills

      “Lutz’s skill will keep you glued to this thick thriller.”

      —St. Louis Post-Dispatch

      “Superb suspense…the kind of book that makes you check to see if all the doors and windows are locked.”

      —Affaire de Coeur

      In for the Kill

      “Brilliant…a very scary and suspenseful read.”

      —Booklist

      “Shamus and Edgar award–winner Lutz gives us further proof of his enormous talent…an enthralling page-turner.”

      —Publishers Weekly

      Fear the Night

      “A a tense, fast-moving novel, a plot-driven page-turner of the first order…a great read!”

      —Book Page

      “A twisted cat-and-mouse game…a fast-moving crime thriller…Lutz skillfully brings to life the sniper’s various victims.”

      —Publishers Weekly

      Darker Than Night

      “Readers will believe that they just stepped off a Tilt-A-Whirl after reading this action-packed police procedural.”

      —The Midwest Book Review

      Night Victims

      “John Lutz knows how to ratchet up the terror…. He propels the story with effective twists and a fast pace.”

      —Sun-Sentinel

      The Night Watcher

      “Compelling…a gritty psychological thriller…Lutz draws the reader deep into the killer’s troubled psyche.”

      —Publishers Weekly

      “John Lutz is the new Lawrence Sanders. The Night Watcher has enough twists to turn you into a raging paranoid by page thirty. I loved it.”

      —Ed Gorman, Mystery Scene

      ALSO BY JOHN LUTZ

      *Urge to Kill

      *Night Kills

      *In for the Kill

      Chill of Night

      Fear the Night

      *Darker Than Night

      Night Victims

      The Night Watcher

      The Night Caller

      Final Seconds (with David August)

      The Ex

      Available from Kensington Publishing Corp. and

       Pinnacle Books

      MISTER X

      JOHN LUTZ

      PINNACLE BOOKS

      KENSINGTON PUBLISHING CORP.

       www.kensingtonbooks.com

      For Don Mackey

       and Vernon Shults

      Contents

      Part I

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

      Chapter 10

      Chapter 11

      Chapter 12

      Chapter 13

      Chapter 14

      Chapter 15

      Chapter 16

      Chapter 17

      Chapter 18

      Chapter 19

      Part II

      Chapter 20

      Chapter 21

      Chapter 22

      Chapter 23

      Chapter 24

      Chapter 25

      Chapter 26

      Chapter 27

      Chapter 28

      Chapter 29

      Chapter 30

      Chapter 31

      Chapter 32

      Chapter 33

      Chapter 34

      Chapter 35

      Chapter 36

      Chapter 37

      Chapter 38

      Chapter 39

      Part III

      Chapter 40

      Chapter 41

      Chapter 42

      Chapter 43

      Chapter