THE POET.

I ve always thought the secret to dealing with death was to keep it at arm s length. But my rule didn t protect me... Shocked by his brother s death, Jack McEvoy, crime reporter, investigates a surprising rise in police suicides. A disturbing pattern of coincidences suggests that a cop-killer is choosing his victims with terrible care. Coast-to-coast Jack follows a trail of unusual suicide notes . He may be on to the story of a lifetime, but scarier still the Poet knows that Jack is on his trail. ' His methods of killing and eluding detection are infernally ingenious, adding an intellectual charge to the visceral kick of the hunt NEW YORK TIMES The real thing, and the best of its kind since Silence of the Lambs... An unputdownable masterclass in thriller writing