RAGE

In a host of consecutive bestsellers, Jonathan Kellerman haskept readers spellbound with the intense, psychologically acuteadventures of Dr. Alex Delaware-and with excursions through the rawunderside of L.A. and the coldest alleys of the criminal mind.""Rage offers a powerful new case in point, as Delaware and LAPDhomicide detective Milo Sturgis revisit a horrifying crime from thepast that has taken on shocking and deadly new dimensions. TroyTurner and Rand Duchay were barely teenagers when they kidnappedand murdered a younger child. Troy, a remorseless sociopath, diedviolently behind bars. But the hulking, slow-witted Rand managed tosurvive his stretch. Now, at age twenty-one, he's emerged ahaunted, rootless young man with a pressing need: to talk-onceagain-with psychologist Alex Delaware. But the young killer comesto a brutal end, that conversation never takes place. Has karmacaught up with Rand? Or has someone waited for eight patient yearsto dine on ice-cold revenge? Both seem strong possibilities toSturgis, but Delaware's suspicions run deeper . . . and darker.Because fear in the voice of the grownup Rand Duchay-and his eeriefinal words to Alex: "I'm not a bad person""-"betray untoldsecrets. Buried revelations so horrendous, and so damning, they'reworth killing for. As Delaware and Sturgis retrace their stepsthrough a grisly murder case that devastated a community, theydiscover a chilling legacy of madness, suicide, and multiplekillings left in its wake-and even uglier truths waiting to beunearthed. And the nearer they come to understanding an unspeakablecrime, the more harrowingly close they get to unmasking a monsterhiding in plain sight. Rage finds Jonathan Kellerman in phenomenalform-orchestrating a relentlessly suspenseful, devilishlyunpredictable plot to a finale as stunning and thought-provoking asit is satisfying. "From the Hardcover edition."