Time Bomb: An Alex Delaware Novel;

NEW 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.
 
€œVirtually 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 couldn€t 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 sniper€s father to conduct a €œpsychological autopsy€ of his child, Alex begins to uncover a strange pattern€"it is a trail of blood. In the dead sniper€s past was a dark and vicious plot. And in Alex Delaware€s future is the stuff of grown-up nightmares: the face of real human evil.