FALLING
Book ID/图书代码： 11640006B08106
English Summary/英文概要： FALLING is a gripping psychological thriller about Kelly Fienman, an ambitious female FBI agent on the hunt for the Acid Man, a brutal serial killer, who outsmarts her and sets her up as his next victim. A struggle ensues and Kelly is mutilated by the killer’s trademark acid,barely escaping with her life before shooting him and leaving him paralyzed from the neck down. Months later a feeble Kelly, physically mutilated from the acid and emotionally rocked by the subsequent destruction of her marriage, is assigned to a kidnapping case that she can only solve by conferring with the mad mind of the man who almost destroyed her. They develop a pact--he will lead her to the kidnapper if she promises to euthanize him once he’s found, to finish what she started and end his now undignified life as an invalid. Thus the intertwining of the story of the kidnapper, Matt Connor, who has faked his own death to enact revenge on the love of his life who walked out on him. As Kelly is led to the kidnapper, she finds herself falling in love with him, and when she risks it all to try to protect him, there is a resurgence of murders eerily similar to the Acid Man’s......
Publishers Weekly said, "Bestselling Pike’s gripping thriller pays homage to Thomas Harris’s Hannibal Lecter novels... The intricate,thoughtful plot offers enough fresh variations on the serial-killer theme to keep readers turning the pages."
Kirkus said, "Gruesome serial killings, a faked death, kidnapping, pervy sex, mind games and a revenge fantasy-pretty sick, but pretty sensational... Nothing less than lurid will do for Pike, who concocts literary crack for adrenaline junkies jaded after too many a milder thriller... This is stylishly written, but it’s the corkscrew plotting and twisted imagination that provide the (guilty) pleasures here."
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本书是一本扣人心弦、心理悬疑的惊险刺激小说。Kelly Fienman是一位野心勃勃的女联邦调查局警察，正在追捕一名残忍、粗暴、没有人性的连环杀手，此人身上携带有具有腐蚀性，具有杀伤力的酸性黏液，而且比Kelly Fienman更为机智、聪明，他已把Kelly Fienman锁定为下一个准备下手的目标。随即就上演了一场生死搏斗，Kelly被凶手的酸性黏液伤得遍体鳞伤，而凶手也受了重伤，在Kelly枪杀他之前，好不容易才脱逃了现场，但他颈部以下都瘫痪了。事情过去了几个月后，因身体的元气大伤，Kelly仍然没有完全康复，随后她的婚姻也破碎了，使她在感情上又遭受了重创，这时她又被派去解决一起绑架案，她的任务就是要和一个知情但患有精神错乱的男人谈判。最后他们达成了一个协议：这个男人答应帮她引路，去找绑匪，但是她必须答应之后解决掉他的生命，好让他这个废人毫无尊严的生活，另外要她将这次案件的调查进行到底。接着故事就围绕着Kelly与绑匪Matt Connor之间的周旋而展开，Matt制造自己死亡的假消息，为的就是向他的妻子进行报复，因为她曾在他最需要帮助的时候，竟弃他而去和另外个男人跑了。随着Kelly与Matt相处的时间越来越长，她由憎恨转为同情，最后发现自己竟然爱上了这个男人，而当她决定要不顾一切的去保护他时，出现了几起作案手法酷似之前带有酸性黏液连环杀手的谋杀案件......
“畅销作家Pike扣人心弦的惊险小说表达了他对作家Thomas Harris的小说的致意，错综复杂、引人深思的故事情节为以连环杀手为主题的小说又添加了许多新颖、与众不同的元素，使读者对本书爱不释手。”一周刊的出版商说道。
“另人毛骨悚然的连环杀手，伪装的死亡，绑架，性，斗智斗勇和病态的复仇计划，动人的感情描写.....没有谁的书可以像Pike一样让我们如此激动不已了，在厌烦了这么多泛滥的惊险小说后，书中跌荡起伏的故事情节让我的肾上腺素急速上升.....这是一本合乎潮流的小说，但曲折离奇的情节和非同一般的创作力使其更为精彩。”Kirkus 说道。
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About the Author/作者介绍： Christopher Pike is a bestselling author of young adult thrillers and mysteries. He makes a chilling entrance to adult thrillers with this book, which we have high hopes for.
Christopher Pike是新一代惊险、神秘刺激小说作家中最为畅销的小说家。正如我们对他寄予的高期望，他在本书中描写的这个不寒而栗的故事，用实际行动证明了他已具有成熟惊险小说家的笔触。
Format:GALLEY
Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)
Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE
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