Part of Series
Lightning strikes with repeated terror as a diabolical hangman murderer leaves one pretty coed after another dangling from the city's lampposts. Lightning rends the night sky with searing acts of violence as a serial rapist returns or the same victims again and again. Lightning blazes through the 87th precinct as the dedicated men and women who wear the gold badge push themselves to the limits of danger...because they know that behind each strike of lightning lies the darkness of a criminal's twisted mind.
Author
"Ed McBain" is one of the pen names of American author and screenwriter Salvatore Albert Lombino (1926-2005), who legally adopted the name Evan Hunter in 1952. While successful and well known as Evan Hunter, he was even better known as Ed McBain, a name he used for most of his crime fiction, beginning in 1956. He also used the pen names John Abbott, Curt Cannon, Hunt Collins, Ezra Hannon, Dean Hudson, Evan Hunter, and Richard Marsten.
