#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - This installment in the Killer Instinct
Series tells the chilling story of a manipulative serial killer and the
two brilliant police agents who must beat him at his own game.
**"With its tight, staccato chapters and cast of dangerous wraiths
lurking everywhere, The Sandman is a nonstop fright." --Janet Maslin,
The New York Times
**
Late one night, outside Stockholm, Mikael Kohler-Frost is found
wandering. Thirteen years earlier, he went missing along with his
younger sister. They were long thought to have been victims of Sweden's
most notorious serial killer, Jurek Walter, now serving a life sentence
in a maximum security psychiatric hospital. Now Mikael tells the police
that his sister is still alive and being held by someone he knows only
as the Sandman. Years ago, Detective Inspector Joona Linna made an
excruciating personal sacrifice to ensure Jurek's capture. He is keenly
aware of what this killer is capable of, and now he is certain that
Jurek has an accomplice. He knows that any chance of rescuing Mikael's
sister depends on getting Jurek to talk, and that the only agent capable
of this is Inspector Saga Bauer, a twenty-seven-year-old prodigy. She
will have to go under deep cover in the psychiatric ward where Jurek is
imprisoned, and she will have to find a way to get to the psychopath
before it's too late--and before he gets inside her head.
