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Only then will she be able to strip back the layers to discover a chilling story of a shattered young boy - and all the girls he adored.Ī sexually charged thriller of extraordinary originality and page-turning suspense, The Girls He Adored moves furiously from the inner recesses of the psyche to its final, startling climax. Irene knows that to survive she must play along with Max's game of sexual perversion.

In a house on a secluded ridge in Oregon, Irene must navigate through the minefield of her captor's various egos - male and female, brilliant and nave, murderous and passive - all of whom are dominated by Max, a seductive killer who views her as both his prisoner and his salvation. Pender is convinced he has found his man, but before he can prove it, the suspect stages a cunning jailbreak and abducts his court-appointed psychiatrist, Irene Cogan. The local police are stunned by a disemboweled strawberry blond victim and an ingenious killer with multiple alternating personalities. Then, in Monterey, California, a routine traffic stop erupts into a scene of horrific violence. The only detail the cases have in common is the strawberry blond color of the victims' hair, and the presence of a mystery man with whom they were last seen.

Pender has been investigating the apparently random disappearances of a dozen women across the country. For ten years, the charmingly disheveled veteran FBI Special Agent E.L.