Winner Take All (Hardcover, 1st ed)

In the best-selling tradition of James Patterson and Patricia Cornwell, Jeff Pate, a veteran police detective takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride of suspense and intrigue into the mind of a monster. North Carolina has a serial killer in its midst... In January 1997, the body of a young woman is found in rural Hertford county -- apparently the victim of a strangulation. Enter Special Agent Clark Hager of the State Bureau of Investigation. Hager and his partner connect this recent death to a similar murder in Wilmington five months prior. And then a week later, another body is found in Greensboro, seemingly falling prey to the same killer. News reports surface telling the public a serial killer is among them. The killer, upon learning Hager is on his trail, makes it a a game of "hunting the hunter" inducing horrific terror, culminating in an epic battle pitting good versus evil in a spine-death match where it's...Winner Take All.