New from Anthony Flacco

Nine years after San Francisco’s great earthquake and fires, the city is just beginning to be reborn and is full of possibility.  In THE HIDDEN MAN:  A NOVEL OF SUSPENSE (Ballantine/Mortalis Trade Paperback, June 24, 2008), the World’s Fair is opening to herald the completion of the Panama Canal and display exciting wonders and the promise of the new technological age.

Yet the primitive past haunts the city’s renaissance. Leaving a trail of brutality, a murderous fanatic secretly stalks one of the fair’s chief attractions: the brilliant mesmerist James “J. D.” Duncan. Homicide detective Randall Blackburn and his adopted son, Shane Nightingale, must combine their intuitive profiling skills and deductive techniques to solve a murder that hasn’t happened yet . . . one that only its terrified intended victim can see coming.

THE HIDDEN MAN
A Novel of Suspense by Anthony Flacco
978-0-8129-7758-5 * $14.00 * 304 pages
On sale June 24, 2008

San Francisco, 1906. The great West Coast city is a center of industry and excitement–and also, to many, of sin. When the Great Earthquake hits, some believe it is the day of reckoning for the immoral masses.

Meanwhile, twelve-year-old Shane Nightingale is witness to the violent deaths of his adoptive mother and sisters–not from the earthquake, but at the hands of a serial killer. As Shane wanders the city appearing to be just another anonymous orphan, he keeps what he has seen a secret. But when his path crosses that of Sergeant Randall Blackburn, who is in pursuit of the killer, the two become an investigative team that will use both a youth’s intuitive gifts and a policeman’s new deductive techniques and crime-fighting tools to unmask a vicious murderer whose fury can be as intense as that of Mother Nature herself.

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