Jack McEvoy
3 primary works
Book 1
Michael Connelly's searing new thriller recalls the best work of Thomas Harris and James Patterson-from page one it will grip you like a Boston crab and never let you go.
Book 2
Jack McEvoy is at the end of the line as a crime reporter. Forced to take a buy-out from the LA Times, he's got 30 days left on the job. His last assignment? Training his replacement, a low-cost reporter just out of J-school. But Jack has other plans for his exit. He is going to go out with a bang - a final story that will win the newspaper journalism's highest honor - a Pulitzer prize. Jack focuses on Alonzo Winslow, a 16-year-old drug dealer from the projects who has confessed to police that he brutally raped and strangled one of his crack clients. Jack convinces Alonzo's mother to co-operate with his investigation into the possibility of her son's innocence. But Jack's real intention is to use his access to report and write a story that explains how societal dysfunction and neglect created a 16-year-old killer. But as Jack delves into the story he soon realises that Alonzo's so-called confession is bogus, and Jack is soon off and running on the biggest story he's had since The Poet crossed his path twelve years before. This time Jack is onto a killer who has worked completely below police and FBI radar.
His investigation leads him into the digital world of data collocation services where server farms are watched over by techs who liken themselves to scarecrows - keeping the birds of prey off their clients' data. But Jack inadvertently set off a digital tripwire and the killer - the Scarecrow - now knows he's coming...
His investigation leads him into the digital world of data collocation services where server farms are watched over by techs who liken themselves to scarecrows - keeping the birds of prey off their clients' data. But Jack inadvertently set off a digital tripwire and the killer - the Scarecrow - now knows he's coming...
Book 3
HOW DO YOU FIND A KILLER WHO KNOWS EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU?
'AS EXCITING AS ANYTHING CONNELLY HAS WRITTEN' THE TIMES
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Jack McEvoy is a reporter with a track record in finding killers. But he's never been accused of being one himself.
Jack went on one date with Tina Portrero. The next thing he knows, the police are at his house telling Jack he's a suspect in her murder.
Maybe it's because he doesn't like being accused of a crime he didn't commit. Or maybe it's because the method of her murder is so chilling that he can't get it out of his head.
But as he uses his journalistic skills to open doors closed to the police, Jack walks a thin line between suspect and detective - between investigation and obsession - on the trail of a killer who knows his victims better than they know themselves...
Riveting, original and terrifying - this is a masterpiece from #1 bestseller Michael Connelly.
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CRIME DOESN'T COME BETTER THAN CONNELLY.
'One of the very best writers working today in any genre' Sunday Telegraph
'The pre-eminent detective novelist of his generation' Ian Rankin
'Crime thriller writing of the highest order' Guardian
'A superb natural storyteller' Lee Child
'A master' Stephen King
'A genius' Independent on Sunday
'America's greatest living crime writer' Daily Express
'No one writes a better modern thriller than Connelly' Evening Standard
'AS EXCITING AS ANYTHING CONNELLY HAS WRITTEN' THE TIMES
* * * * *
Jack McEvoy is a reporter with a track record in finding killers. But he's never been accused of being one himself.
Jack went on one date with Tina Portrero. The next thing he knows, the police are at his house telling Jack he's a suspect in her murder.
Maybe it's because he doesn't like being accused of a crime he didn't commit. Or maybe it's because the method of her murder is so chilling that he can't get it out of his head.
But as he uses his journalistic skills to open doors closed to the police, Jack walks a thin line between suspect and detective - between investigation and obsession - on the trail of a killer who knows his victims better than they know themselves...
Riveting, original and terrifying - this is a masterpiece from #1 bestseller Michael Connelly.
* * * * *
CRIME DOESN'T COME BETTER THAN CONNELLY.
'One of the very best writers working today in any genre' Sunday Telegraph
'The pre-eminent detective novelist of his generation' Ian Rankin
'Crime thriller writing of the highest order' Guardian
'A superb natural storyteller' Lee Child
'A master' Stephen King
'A genius' Independent on Sunday
'America's greatest living crime writer' Daily Express
'No one writes a better modern thriller than Connelly' Evening Standard