Wet Work

VICAP #7

by Michael Newton

Code Nimrod the Hunter. A top-secret government agency rescued this heartless psychopath from execution, gave him a new identity, honed his killing skills to a razor’s edge—and then allowed him to escape. VICAP veterans Flynn and Tanner personally witnessed the lethal injection and apparent demise of the infamous Bloodbath Killer. But the trademark brutality of Los Angeles’ latest serial murders lead Flynn and Tanner to an inescapable conclusion. Somehow the Bloodbath has returned, and this time, he’s smarter, crueler, more elusive—and deadlier than ever. _______ Though this series is fiction, VICAP is a real organization initially conceived in the late 1960s when the crimes of the Boston Strangler, Charles Manson, and other “motiveless” killers began to make national headlines. The case files of Special Agents Flynn and Tanner are a scorching record of brutal crime. Their Los Angeles is an urban nightmare ruled by psychotic lords of violence. But VICAP agents are tough and relentless—they never give up.

202 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 4, 1992

About the author

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From Wikipedia:
"Michael Newton (born 1951) is an American author best known for his work on Don Pendleton's Mack Bolan series. Newton first began work on the Executioner series by co-writing "The Executioner's War Book" with Don Pendleton in 1977. Since then he has been a steady writer for the series with almost 90 entries to his credit, which triples the amount written by creator Don Pendleton. His skills and knowledge of the series have allowed him to be picked by the publishers to write the milestone novels such as #100, #200, and #300.

Writing under the pseudonym Lyle Brandt, Michael Newton has also become a popular writer of Western novels. He has written a number of successful non-fiction titles as well, including a book on genre writing (How to Write Action Adventure Novels). His book Invisible Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Florida won the Florida Historical Society's 2002 Rembert Patrick Award for Best Book in Florida History. Newton's "Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology" won the American Library Association's award for Outstanding Reference Work in 2006."

Pen names: Lyle Brandt, Don Pendleton, Jack Buchanan

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