Nine
Subtitle: a novel of suspense
By: Jan Burke.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
Subjects: Police -- California -- Los Angeles -- Fiction; Fugitives from justice -- Fiction; Serial murders -- Fiction; Vigilantes -- Fiction; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "When a brutal felon on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list turns up dead in Los Angeles County, few mourn him; in fact, the public begins to cheer his unknown assailants as heroes. But as more brutalized corpses of fugitive outlaws are found, Sheriff's Homicide Detective Alex Brandon knows that the vigilante group the public has nicknamed 'The Exterminators' may be far more ruthless and sadistic than its victims. The corpses bear eerie similarities to victims of a serial killer investigated by Brandon ten years ago. The perpetrator died at the hands of his own deeply traumatized teenaged stepson, Kit Logan. Logan, protected by his wealthy family, never spent a day in jail; instead, he was sent to a private reform school for the truant sons of L.A.'s most affluent. Alex Brandon, unable to locate Logan for questioning, has a chilling sense he is being manipulated. But why?" --