Mary Willis Walker se adentra en profundas emociones humanas y dilemas morales, a menudo incrustándolos en tramas intrincadas. Su prosa se distingue por una aguda perspicacia psicológica y un talento para crear atmósferas evocadoras. Walker entrelaza magistralmente el suspense con las indagaciones filosóficas, impulsando a los lectores a reflexionar sobre la naturaleza de la justicia y la fragilidad humana. Su estilo distintivo, marcado por un lenguaje preciso y una meticulosa atención al detalle, la establece como una voz contemporánea significativa.
Un psicópata va a ser ejecutado. La periodista Molly Cates no está segura de que sea el responsable de todos los crímenes de los que se le acusa. Y justo entonces aparece un nuevo asesino que se declara discípulo del condenado.
For forty-six days, bus driver Walter Demming and eleven schoolchildren have been buried underground, held captive in the fortified compound of a fundamentalist cult. Deprived of daylight, fresh air and contact with the outside world, they endure the terrifying rants of the cult's leader, the charismatic Samuel Mordecai. He joyfully predicts the arrival of Armageddon - in exactly five days' time. All attempts at negotiations have failed. Enter tenacious crime reporter Molly Cates, the only journalist ever to have interviewed Mordecai. It was the worst assignment of her life - until this one. She has gained his trust before, and she must try again. But this time the stakes are impossibly high. And she has just five days...
When crime reporter Molly Cates's father died more than twenty-five years ago, the case was ruled a suicide, and Molly's efforts to prove otherwise led to nothing but anguish and the breakup of her family. But now new information has come her way and she reopens the investigation-and a rush of old wounds-with a vengeance. Soon the personal becomes dangerously political as Molly's search for the truth leads her from the stately halls of Texas government to the mean streets of Austin's down-and-out-and ultimately to a moral dilemma she never could have anticipated. "From the Paperback edition."
Een journaliste tracht meer te weten te komen over de dood van haar vader en ontdekt een complot tegen de senaat van Texas.
Elf kinderen en de chauffeur van hun schoolbus worden gekidnapt door een waanzinnige sekteleider.
