- Hardcover: 336 pages
- Publisher: Minotaur Books; First Edition edition (Jun 9 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0312545789
- ISBN-13: 978-0312545789
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14.5 x 3.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 454 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,521,992 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Advance Praise for The Assailant
“Equal parts thriller and procedural… [The killer’s] cat-and-mouse game with Hastings is carefully and disturbingly rendered.… Darkly entertaining.”
—Booklist
Praise for Goodbye Sister Disco
“Hunt unspools this gripping plot at breakneck speed. Not a word seems wasted, whether in breathtaking action sequences or in back-story sketches of the book’s various players.”
—The Wall Street Journal
“Hunt’s roller coaster of a crime thriller has it all—great characters, plenty of action, and a nail-biting ending.”
—Library Journal (starred review)
“The superbly drawn characters in this mix of thriller and police procedural would do Joseph Wambaugh or Michael Connelly proud.… Another fine piece of work.”
—Booklist (starred review)
Praise for The Betrayers
“Densely woven, economical and utterly assured. Hunt plots like a veteran of urban warfare.”
—Kirkus Reviews
Product Description
CO-ED SLAIN. That’s the call that brings St. Louis Police Lieutenant George Hastings to the downtown banks of the Mississippi River, where Reesa Woods has been strangled and dumped. The hard-charging Hastings is no stranger to murder, but he’s stuck without any leads until a second body—also strangled—turns up across town and he knows he’s chasing a monster.
A talented doctor with an otherwise ordinary and enviable life, Raymond Sheffield has some very dark needs. His first victims are targets of opportunity, but his ambitions go far beyond that. He’s formed a taste for killing, and his only interest is in getting better at it.
As the violence mounts, the line between upstanding citizens and their secret desires gets thinner and thinner in this thrilling game of catch-me-if-you-can from acclaimed crime novelist James Patrick Hunt.
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2.5 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews)
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
well written serial killer thriller, Jun 11 2009
By Harriet Klausner - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Assailant (Hardcover)
St. Louis Police Homicide Lieutenant George Hastings leads the investigation into the strangulation murder of Reesa Woods, a high price call girl paying her way through college as an escort, whose body was found in the muddy banks of the Mississippi. The evidence is near zero and her associates refuse to speak. Soon afterward a second strangulation death, escort Adele Sayers, is found outside the city.
A regional task force is formed with George as number two as he and the team leader SLPD Chief of Detectives Ronnie Wulf bang heads. A third body with a different MO that of realtor Marla Hilsheimer is found clubbed to death. The killer gloats and taunts the cops with tips and clues to the St. Louis Herald reporter Cliff Llewellyn. Teaming up with Woods' associate Rita Liu, George struggles to prevent any more deaths from "Springheel Jim" as the killer calls himself to the media.
The latest Hastings police procedural (see GOODBYE SISTER DISCO and BETRAYERS) is a well written serial killer thriller, but uses the taunting PR fame grabbing by the psychopath that is typical of the sub-genre. The story line is fast-paced as the homicides and the taunting increase. Fans will enjoy the taunting in your face of THE ASSAILANT as even the members of the task force know that without the killer's help the case would remain hot.
Harriet Klausner
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Don't bother with this book, Aug 28 2009
By Lisa - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Assailant (Hardcover)
I'm not generally a fan of mysteries, but I picked this book up because I live in St. Louis and was intrigued by the cover. Well, I have to say I'm not at all impressed. Changing the names and locations of real streets and buildings in St. Louis doesn't do anything for the reader, especially those readers who live in the city. It's confusing and doesn't add anything to the story. I also noticed that the author must think his readers are stupid--many scenes had the characters explaining their actions to other characters, making the writing seemed very forced and laborious. He must not think we are smart enough to figure things out for ourselves, and that's the one thing I HATE as a reader. Don't assume I'm stupid. I don't think I'll be picking up any more of James Patrick Hunt's other books.
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