The Hidden Man Book

Another exhilarating thriller from Edgar Award winner David Ellis, introducing the new series protagonist Jason Kolarich.Jason Kolarich is a midwestern Everyman with a linemanâ??s build and an easy smart-ass remark. Heâ??s a young, intelligent maverick, but heâ??s also struggling with an overwhelming emotional burdenâ??one that threatens to unravel his own life, and possibly the lives of those around him. Twenty-seven years ago, two-year-old Audrey Cutler disappeared from her home in the middle of the night. She was never found. All the detectives had to go on were vague eyewitness accounts of a man running down the Cutlersâ?? street, apparently carrying someone. Without enough evidence to suggest otherwise, Griffin Perliniâ??a neighbor with prior offenses against minorsâ??was arrested, but never convicted. The case is long closed when Perlini is murdered nearly thirty years later. Now a man named Mr. Smith appears in Jason Kolarichâ??s office, saying only that he represents a third party who wants the man charged with murder off the hook and that Kolarich is perfect for the job. The new client: Audrey Cutlerâ??s older brother, Sammyâ??Kolarichâ??s estranged childhood best friendâ??a man he hasnâ??t seen in nearly twenty years. But when Kolarich starts receiving violent threats from Mr. Smithâ??s enigmatic employer, he figures out that the secrecy behind this nameless third partyâ??and the key to winning Sammyâ??s caseâ??is entangled with the mystery of Audreyâ??s disappearance. With his own life and Sammyâ??s in the balance, Kolarich has to put aside not only the mounting anxiety of the job but also a heart-wrenching personal tragedy in order to find out what really happened to Audrey all those years ago.Read More