A Killer in the Wind

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2014
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Three years ago, Dan Champion uncovered a criminal syndicate run by a kingpin known only as the Fat Woman. Champion infiltrated her world of murder, obsession, and perversity, but the case also broke him. He began hallucinating and taking drugs.
Now, Champion is a small-town detective, hoping the ghosts and hallucinations are finally behind him. Then one night he is called to examine the body of a woman who has washed ashore. To his surprise, he recognizes the woman as Samantha, someone he dreamed about during his dark period--a woman who doesn't exist. Soon Champion is haunted by a team of expert killers who want to make sure he never finds the truth. The ghosts of the dead are all around him, and Champion has to find out who murdered them, or risk becoming one himself.

Synopsis

Three years ago, Dan Champion uncovered a criminal syndicate run by a kingpin known only as the Fat Woman. Champion infiltrated her world of murder, obsession, and perversity, but the case also broke him. He began hallucinating and taking drugs.

Now, Champion is a small-town detective, hoping the ghosts and hallucinations are finally behind him. Then one night he is called to examine the body of a woman who has washed ashore. To his surprise, he recognizes the woman as Samantha, someone he dreamed about during his dark period--a woman who doesn't exist. Soon Champion is haunted by a team of expert killers who want to make sure he never finds the truth. The ghosts of the dead are all around him, and Champion has to find out who murdered them, or risk becoming one himself.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Published: 23 Jan 2014
ISBN 10: 0802122256
ISBN 13: 9780802122254

Media Reviews

If you haven't read Andrew Klavan, you're in for a treat. He tells vivid stories with a conversational style that's deceptively simple but does not waste a word. --Charlotte Observer

Evokes the gritty classics of Cornell Woolrich and Jim Thompson while spinning its own brand of hard-boiled psychological suspense. Among its other distinctions, this book gives us a detective who is tough enough to outlast the most bizarre encounters but isn't too tough to be gripped with fear. --Kirkus Reviews

Taut, frightening . . . The edgy story complements a lead character whose fragile memory can't always separate the real from the imaginary. --Publishers Weekly

Dark, violent, seasoned with wit and fueled by anger. --Books and Culture

Klavan is worthy to be mentioned with Keith Ablow, Jonathan Kellerman, Andrew Vachss, James Patterson, and even Stephen King. --Huntington News

Author Bio

Andrew Klavan is the internationally bestselling author of thirteen novels, including True Crime, which was made into a film by Clint Eastwood, and Don't Say a Word, made into a film starring Michael Douglas. He has been nominated for five Edgar awards, winning twice, and is the author of the Homelanders series for Young Adults, which have been optioned by Summit Entertainment ( Twilight ). His essays and op-eds on politics, religion, movies and literature have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times. He lives in Southern California.