Opening Moves

By Steven James

Book Overview

In The Bowers Files novels, FBI Special Agent Patrick Bowers has stopped some of the most vicious serial killers ever imagined. Now, in the fifth exciting installment, author Steven James takes readers back to Bowers's terrifying beginning. Milwaukee, 1997. In a city reeling from the crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer, a series of gruesome kidnappings and mutilations draw authorities into a case like nothing they've ever seen. Cops think a Dahmer copycat is on the loose. But Patrick Bowers, working as a homicide detective, suspects this is more than an ode to the infamous cannibal. When he discovers that the shocking acts reference some of the most notorious and macabre killers in our nation's history, the investigation spirals into a nightmare of manipulation, brutality, and terror. Wielding groundbreaking investigative techniques, Bowers must now face off with a killer who will stop at nothing to get his message out to the world. Chilling, gritty, and packed with twists and turns, Opening Moves is Steven James's most heart-pounding novel yet.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451237765
• ISBN13: 9780451237767
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 4.2" x 7.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher