Show of Evil (Vail/Stampler #2) by William Diehl

"Spine-tingling" said The New York Times of William Diehl's Primal Fear, the international bestseller about brilliant defence attorney Martin Vail and the psychotic murderer he saves from execution. Now, in Diehl's spellbinding new novel, Vail has become Chicago's chief prosecutor, the man with the power to tear down enemies in high places. But he must also confront his worst legal nightmare - a nightmare that he himself helped to create.

It begins with a shocking, unsolved murder: a young mother named Linda Balfour is butchered in a small town in southern Illinois. Months later, an investigator in the Chicago D.A.'s office discovers that she died with a coded inscription printed in blood on the back of her head. It is the exact combination of letters and numbers that was found on the head of Bishop Rushman, the beloved Chicago clergyman who had been slashed and dismembered years before by an angelic-looking altar boy named Aaron Stampler. The same Aaron Stampler whom Vail saved from the electric chair.

For the past two years, Stampler has been locked away in a high-security institution for the criminally insane, with no access to the outside world. And then another altar boy turns up dead - with a similar inscription in blood on the back of his head. If Aaron Stampler isn't committing these killings, who is? Martin Vail's career - maybe even his life - hangs in the balance...

In one bestseller after another, William Diehl has dazzled readers and critics with his riveting plots. But nothing Diehl has written before will prepare his fans for the explosive suspense of Show of Evil. Filled with unforgettable characters, crackling with the energy and hustle of Chicago, shocking in its insights into the mind of a psychotic killer, Show of Evil is Diehl at the peak of his powers.

Genres: Thriller - Mystery - Crime - Suspense - Horror
Condition: Good
Published: 1995 by BCA
Pages: 503
CN: 9545
Weight: 500g