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For several years in Georgia a serial killer struck, taking two girls each time. One girl from each pair was killed swiftly and left by the side of a major road. On the girl would be clues such as soil or vegetation which if followed, would lead the police to the other girl. The second girl would be left in some inhospitable location, such as a national park, with just a gallon of water. The killer was dubbed the Eco-killer. Four times he struck until finally in 2000, he stopped after the police had their one success, they rescued the second girl of the final pair. The detective in charge of the case was Special Agent Michael 'Mac' McCormack of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Now in 2003, Mac begins getting phone calls from someone who knows who the killer is or is possibly the killer themself. Mac is directed to the FBI headquarters at Quantico where he enrols for training. There he meets Kimberly Quincy who is on week 9 of the new agent training course. A physical sparring match on the running course, when Mac surprises Kimberly in their opening meeting, sets the tone for their tempestuous relationship. Next day Kimberley discovers a body on the Quantico grounds. Mac tells her it is the work of the Eco-killer but the FBI has their suspicions about him thinking it strange that a body should appear now, when he's around. Mac gets the help of Kimberly and her father, a former FBI agent, and start off on the hunt for girl number two. But this time the killer has upped the ante in his macabre game, not two girls have been taken but four...Claudia Christian does a superb job with the voices so it is easy to tell which character is speaking. I especially liked her 'Mac' and also the voice of the last victim whose thoughts are interspersed in the race to find her. Though the ending is never in much doubt this was still a very suspenseful listening experience, with the narrative switching between different scenes with lots of misdirection by the author. There are a few gruesome scenes, especially involving snakes. Possibly due to the abridgement I wasn't left understanding why the killer was acting how they did nor whether they were trying to say something about protecting the environment. That aside, this is a heart stopping entry in the serial killer versus FBI genre and I hope the lead characters appear in another volume.
Reviewed by Karen Meek, October 2003
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