Pay attention, readers! This thriller is Robert Liparulo's first venture into crime fiction and proves how thrilling a crime novel can be - wonderful and promising for more of the same in the future!

Brady Moore and Alicia Wagner are investigating a serial killer's devastating wreckage and a motive that is downright eerie. For the criminal uses a breed of wolf dogs to assist in the murders of various characters who all have one common denominator. Each has had a near-death experience in which they experienced a touch of heaven - and hell!

The organization behind these murders, the Watchers, has existed for over a thousand years. During that time, in their attempt to get closer to God, they have become deeply interested in the Antichrist. What is their eventual goal? And now that Brady and Alicia are getting closer to their secret, will they live to complete their investigation? For now, they are the next intended victims of the Watchers and enveloped in a hellish adventure they never deemed possible in all the years of their FBI work!

The crime scenes in this novel are extraordinarily vivid, so realistic that the reader feels he or she is right there experiencing the determination of both investigators and killers as well as the all too human characters portrayed in this pulsating plot that both repels and consumes with every turn of the page!

Superbly crafted, Robert Liparulo! More soon, please!

Reviewed by Viviane Crystal on March 14, 2006

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