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307 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout. The Bank Robber Handed The Phone To Betsy, But She Knew The Exact Words The Manager Would Hear, And Who The Speaker Was. Betsy, Its Steve. There's A Man Here In Our House. He Has A Gun Pointed At Me. He Says That Unless The Woman In Your Office Leaves The Bank With The Money By Eight-ten Exactly, Tommy, Anna, And I Will Be Killed. 'It's Eight-o-four.
Amazon Review
Part of the motive of serial killers is simply to prove that they are better--better than their victims and better than the police investigating them. Mastermind, the villain of James Patterson's new thriller Roses are Red, goes one better--he does not even have to do all his own killings, simply manipulate the bank robbers he gathers for progressively more vicious hostage takings into ever more bloody massacres. Psychologist-investigator Alex is already coping with the aftermath of a previous case--the woman he loves has been so badly traumatised by the killer who abducted her for months that she does not want to be near him or their child; and now he finds himself dealing with a case where completely arbitrary decisions about who lives and who dies are the order of the day. Mastermind is ahead of the game each step of the way--this is a novel about the pain of betrayal as well as the pain of responsibility; Alex is a flawed, clever man driven near to breaking point by the knowledge that, if he guesses things wrong, people will die, and that they may die anyway just to spite him. --Roz Kaveney
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