Description: A startlingly original thriller of mounting terror and white-knuckle suspense by the critically acclaimed author of Labyrinth, the book Publishers Weekly called "one of the most exciting yarns of the millennium...expertly crafted." Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist and heralded novelist Mark Sullivan returns with his most provocative and mesmerizing thriller yet. Get ready for a spine-tingling, skin-prickling journey into a cold-blooded world of snakes, fanatical spiritual cults, and brutal murder that probes one of history's enduring enigmas: Who was the second woman? A divorced, second-generation cop out of San Diego, Seamus Moynihan figures he's witnessed the worst kinds of violence humans can visit upon one another. Until he's summoned to a crime scene where the victim was bitten to death. The savage bites may have come from a snake, but someone who knew exactly where to place the deadly reptile, along with a strychnine-laced apple found in the victim's mouth, orchestrated the murder. With the help of a Biblical scholar whose ideas about the enigmatic wife of Cain may provide a startling link to the current investigation, Moynihan follows a twisting trail that leads to a herpetologist on the cutting edge of television celebrity...and a chilling fundamentalist sect of snake handlers in the backwoods of Alabama. As the mystery deepens, weaving together events of both the distant and recent past, the veteran detective begins to question his own life choices--and one final decision he may not live to make.

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