Light of the World

Resumen del libro

When Detective Dave Robicheaux's daughter, Alafair, declares her intention to interview a convicted serial killer called Asa Surette in his Kansas prison cell, he does all he can to dissuade her. Dave has always encouraged her ambitions as a writer, but as a father he doesn't want her to be exposed to a man so nakedly evil. And his fears seem well founded when Alafair is visibly shocked by the encounter.

Two years later, the horror Surette evoked is all but forgotten, as Dave, his wife Molly and Alafair are vacationing amidst the natural beauty of Montana. But evil, it seems, has followed them into this wild paradise. Someone is stalking Alafair, and Dave begins to suspect that it's Surette - even though he officially died when the prison truck he was being transported in collided with an oil tanker.

Is Alafair now the target of one of the most depraved serial killers ever to have been caught, or has she unwittingly crossed paths with a murderous psychopath closer to home?

Biografía del autor

(Houston, 1936) es un conocido escritor norteamericano de novela negra. Graduado en Lengua Inglesa por la Universidad de Missouri. Ha sido premiado en dos ocasiones con el Edgar Award, recibió el Grand Master Award de la Asociación de Escritores de Misterio de América en 2009, y ha sido nominado al Premio Pulitzer. RBA ha publicado una de sus obras más aclamadas, El huracán (SN, 26), ambientada en el desastre del Katrina. Dos obras suyas han sido llevadas a la gran pantalla: En el centro de la tormenta, protagonizada por Tommy Lee Jones, y Prisioneros del cielo, con Alec Baldwin a la cabeza del reparto.