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The Dead Student

by John Katzenbach
Kirby Heyborne
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A master of the modern psychological thriller, internationally bestselling author John Katzenbach is an unrivaled investigator of that most primal human motive revenge. A tense, penetrating novel, The Dead Student follows a young man set on avenging the uncle who saved his life, no matter the consequences. Timothy Warner, a PhD student who goes by the nickname "Moth," wakes up on his ninety-ninth day of sobriety with an intense craving for drink. He immediately calls his uncle Ed, a former alcoholic and now successful psychiatrist who has become Moths mentor and father figure. Ed promises to meet him at an AA meeting later that day but never shows up. Moth bikes to his office only to discover a grisly scene his uncle lying in a pool of blood, shot through the temple. Deeply shaken, Moth dials 911 and waits for the police, who pronounce the death a suicide. Two words are scrawled across Ed's prescription pad: My fault. But Moth refuses to believe that his uncle would take his own life. Devastated and confused, he calls on the only person he thinks he can trust: Andrea Martine, an ex-girlfriend he has not spoken to in four years, a young woman who is struggling through her own trauma. Each battling their inner demons, Moth and Andy travel into dark, unfamiliar territory, intent on finding out the truth about Ed's death and circling ever closer to a devious mind that will flinch at nothing to achieve his own goal of revenge.

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  • Release date

    October 6, 2015

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781622319428
      • File size: 480695 KB
      • Duration: 16:41:26

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 3, 2015
      In this clever cat-and-mouse thriller from bestseller Katzenbach (Red 1-2-3), the mysterious Student #5 has spent decades murdering people he believes got him banned from his chosen studies in abnormal psychology. His latest victim—staged as a suicide—is the uncle of Ph.D. student Timothy “Moth” Warner. An alcoholic, Moth just knows his uncle wouldn’t kill himself. Enlisting the support of his ex-girlfriend Andy Candy and DA Susan Terry—and with his AA group that meets in the church known as Redeemer One acting as casual advisers as the investigation progresses—he begins his quest, which ranges from Massachusetts to Miami and Key West, to learn the truth and catch the mastermind. Slow at first, the book finally picks up momentum when paths cross and Student #5 suddenly realizes he now has a few more names to scratch off his death list. But the super-criminal won’t find the easy marks as easy as they look. Agent: Moses Cardona, John Hawkins & Associates.

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  • English

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