Description

Edgar Award-Winner Jonathan Kellerman once more  explores the problem of Californiais golden  coast and creates a book of complex  characterizations and unlimited suspense.  By the full time psychiatrist Dr. Alex  Delaware reached the college the damage was done:  A sniper had opened fire on a crowded playground,  but was gunned down before any kids were  hurt.  While  the Television news teams feasted on the picture an Alex  began his treatment sessions using the traumatized  children, he could not avoid the picture of the slight  teenager clutching an oversized gun. That which was the  identity behind the experience and title: a might-be  assassin, or simply another target beneath an  indifferent Florida atmosphere? Fascinated with a demand in the sniperis father  to conduct a "psychological autopsy" of  his kid, Alex starts to discover a strange  pattern of neglect, purity, and reduction.