Jigsaw

VICAP #8

by Michael Newton

He has the grace and precision of a surgeon. But this aficionado of human anatomy specializes in healthy, suntanned coeds. He has no interest in medicine. All the Jigsaw killer wants are his gruesome souvenirs. Agents Flynn and Tanner need all their VICAP experience to get on this warped killer’s trail. The corpses of “donors” are strewn all over California. Their quarry displays a genius that makes his capture impossible…until he’s fitted the last gory detail to his shocking masterpiece. _______ 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. Jigsaw is # 8 in the acclaimed series of nine Flynn and Tanner VICAP novels.

221 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 5, 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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