The Architect: A Novel (Frank Clevenger) - Softcover

Ablow, Keith

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9780312939717: The Architect: A Novel (Frank Clevenger)

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ISBN 10: 031293971X ISBN 13: 9780312939717

Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2006

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West Crosse is a genius at creating spaces uniquely fitting the people who will inhabit them. The catch: he works under a shroud of secrecy, charges his clients a fortune, and then sometimes, in the most skillful and horrifying ways, he kills them...

West has the best of reasons. He's designing lives as well as homes, obliterating everything that is ugly, accidental, or ill-conceived. And with each meticulous murder he commits, he's getting better--leaving behind carved bodies that make a bone chilling statement of their own...

Forensic psychiatrist Frank Clevenger is hunting an outrageous serial killer whose victims seem to have only wealth in common. With his own life in shambles and the murderer two steps ahead of him, Clevenger can't know that the next killing ground will be the White House, where an innocent life just needs the perfect touch...

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HE HAS...
West Crosse is a genius at creating spaces uniquely fitting the people who will inhabit them. The catch: he works under a shroud of secrecy, charges his clients a fortune, and then sometimes, in the most skillful and horrifying ways, he kills them...

A MOST INTELLIGENT DESIGN....
West has the best of reasons. He's designing lives as well as homes, obliterating everything that is ugly, accidental, or ill-conceived. And with each meticulous murder he commits, he's getting better--leaving behind carved bodies that make a bone chilling statement of their own...

FOR MURDER.
Forensic psychiatrist Frank Clevenger is hunting an outrageous serial killer whose victims seem to have only wealth in common. With his own life in shambles and the murderer two steps ahead of him, Clevenger can't know that the next killing ground will be the White House, where an innocent life just needs the perfect touch...

"The pages turn faster than you can say 'taut psychological thriller'."
--Entertainment Weekly

"Deeply compelling."
--Booklist

Visit Keith Ablow's Web site at: www.keithablow.com

About the Author:

KEITH ABLOW, M.D., like his protagonist, is a forensic psychiatrist who has testified in some of the nation's most highly publicized trials. He has written three other Frank Clevenger novels, Compulsion, Denial, Projection, and most recently Murder Suicide. He lives in Massachusetts.

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