The Night Monster: A Novel of Suspense (Jack Carpenter)

ISBN: 0345515471

Author: Swain, James

Condition: New

The past has come back to haunt P.I. Jack Carpenter, former head of the Broward County Missing Persons Unit. As a young cop he failed to stop the kidnapping of a college coed by a shockingly large assailant-and neither victim nor attacker was ever seen again. But eighteen years later, when his daughter, Jessie, asks him to bird-dog a creep whos been shadowing her college basketball team, Carpenters pursuit of the voyeur leads him smack into another run-in with his old nemesis, who abducts one of Jessies teammates. With the assistance of the kidnap victims tycoon father and precious little time before the trail goes cold, Jack and his dog, Buster, hit the ground running-following a twisted trail from the ruins of a shuttered mental asylum with an infamous past to the streets of a sinister small town with a ghastly secret.