Who snuffed out the good man’s life with the slash of a blade on a midnight street? The local printmaster has labeled the fiend ‘the Masker,’ adding fuel to a volatile mystery…Īnd when the Masker claims a new victim, hardworking young law clerk Matthew Corbett is lured into a maze of forensic clues and heart pounding investigation that will both test his natural penchant for detection and inflame his hunger for justice. The unsolved murder of a respected doctor has sent ripples of fear throughout a city teeming with life and noise and commerce. Told with matchless insight into the human soul.’ Now, Robert McCammon brings the hero of that spellbinding novel, Matthew Corbett, to eighteenth century New York, where a killer wields a bloody and terrifying power over a bustling city carving out its identity and over Matthew’s own uncertain destiny. His epic masterwork Speaks the Nightbird, a tour de force of witch hunt terror in a colonial town, was hailed by Sandra Brown as ‘deeply satisfying…
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