In The Blood
Quotes from the Book
Really? We always have a choice, do we? What about the choices that other people make that end up completely changing your life, not theirs? Where is our choice there, then?
The nightmares were so devastating that as a self-defense mechanism his brain did all it could to keep him awake at night. Instead of falling asleep, Hunter read ferociously. Books became his refuge, his castle. A safe place where the ghastly nightmares couldn't breach the gates.
We don't always have a choice. Sometimes choices are made for us by others, and there's nothing we, as humans, can do about it, except react.
Anger and emotional pain are good things," ... "They show that we are still alive. That we still care.
When it's someone close to us, nothing else matters. We will even forget who we are. Maybe even become a monster in the process.
About Chris Carter
About the book
'I need your help, Detective. Fire or water?' Detective Robert Hunter of the LAPD's Homicide Special Section receives an anonymous call asking him to go to a specific web address - a private broadcast. Hunter logs on and a show devised for his eyes only immediately begins. But the caller doesn't want Detective Hunter to just watch, he wants him to participate, and refusal is simply not an option. Forced to make a sickening choice, Hunter must sit and watch as an unidentified victim is tortured and murdered live over the Internet. The LAPD, together with the FBI, use everything at their disposal to electronically trace the transmission down, but this killer is no amateur, and he has covered his tracks from start to finish. And before Hunter and his partner Garcia are even able to get their investigation going, Hunter receives a new phone call. A new website address. A new victim. But this
Book details
- First published
- 2013
- Author
- Chris Carter
- Genre
- Thriller
- Goodreads rating
- 4.47 (21k ratings)
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