Contributor(s):Author: Jonathan KellermanNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER By the time psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware reached the school the damage was done: A sniper had opened fire on a crowded playground, but was gunned down before any children were hurt. Virtually impossible to put aside until the final horrifying showdown.--People While the TV news crews feasted on the scene and Alex began his therapy sessions with the traumatized children, he couldnt escape the image of a slight teenager clutching an oversized rifle. What was the identity behind the name and face: a would-be assassin, or just another victim beneath an indifferent California sky? Intrigued by a request from the snipers father to conduct a psychological autopsy of his child, Alex begins to uncover a strange pattern--it is a trail of blood. In the dead snipers past was a dark and vicious plot. And in Alex Delawares future is the stuff of grown-up nightmares: the face of real human evil.