The young officer closed his eyes, grinding his teeth together the way he’d done as a kid. He looked at the building where Jenny was being held.

Jenny, the woman who looked just like Myra Weinburg.

Ron Pulaski now resigned himself to what he had to do. It was terrible, it was foolish, but he had no choice. He was cornered.

His head down, he muttered, “Okay.”

“You’ll do it?”

About the Author

Former attorney and folksinger Jeffery Deaver is the best-selling author of a dozen suspense novels and numerous short stories. He has been nominated for an Edgar Award three times and is a two-time recipient of the Ellery Queen Readers’ Award for best short story of the year. The London Times has called him the “best psychological thriller writer around.” He makes his home in Virginia and California. The Bone Collector, the first Lincoln Rhyme thriller, is soon to be a feature film from Universal Pictures.

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