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Book Review of The Girls He Adored

The Girls He Adored


Call him Max. But don't shake his hand. Don't get to close at all. Because Max isn't just Max. He's a whole lot of people, a twisted collection of personalities struggling to find a way out. One of those personalities is vicious. Insatiable. A man with a talent for the blade and a hunger for women with strawberry blond hair.

Max's latest quarry, Dr. Irene Cogan, is about to learn two things firsthand: what makes Max tick, and what happened to

THE GIRLS HE ADORED

Jonathan Nasaw brilliantly portrays three equally intense characters--deviant killer, the expert psychiatrist he abducts, and the charmingly disheveled veteran FBI agent on their trail--in this sexually charged thriller of extraordinary originality and page-turning suspense.

"Hannibal Lecter better get busy. Forget the nice Chianti and fava beans, his position as pound-for-pound the scariest of the world's fictional and diabolical monsters is clearly at risk."
-The Toronto Sun

"Compelling and intellectually stimulating, Nasaw's novel draws a complex portrait of the multiple-personality serial killer...not easy to put down or forget."
-The Dallas Morning News