Title: The Pawn
Author: Steven James
Rating:
4 stars out of 5Publisher: Onyx
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 448
Keywords: thriller
Reading period: 13–19 September, 2010
Patrick Bowers PhD is an environmental criminologist for the FBI.
A serial killer who calls himself the Illusionist is killing women in North Carolina
and leading the FBI a merry dance.
There's a major subplot involving another killer and Jonestown.
And Bowers' personal life is complicated by a sullen teenage stepdaughter.
Despite the ludicrous complexity of the plot,
it's an entertaining and relatively thoughtful thriller.