Everyone has a breaking point . . . โProbably no other suspense writer takes readers as deeply into the heart of darkness as Cook.โ โChicago Tribune
There are no witnesses nor evidence to link him to the crime, but the police are sure that vagrant Albert Jay Smalls killed a child. Their interviews have led nowhere, but nowโwith a 6:00 a.m. deadline looming at which he must be released from custodyโthey will try one more interrogation. Detective Pierce, whose own daughterโs death has left a hole in his heart, and Detective Cohen, still broken from what he saw in World War II, will look into the abyss of Smallsโs troubled mind in a frantic last-ditch effort to extract a confession. Their effort will bring answers they never expectedโand blur the line between innocence and guilt . . .
โCook adroitly weaves back and forth between the crime itself, the subsequent investigation and the halting questioning of the suspect. More compelling, however, is his portrayal of how the crime affects Pierce and Cohen, as well as several secondary characters . . . Down to the cleverly hatched, melancholy ending, Cook again takes readers down a dark, treacherous road into the heart of human fallibility and struggle.โ โPublishers Weekly
โ[An] irresistible premise.โ โKirkus Reviews
โWell-plotted . . . The psychic pain of these characters is piercing.โ โThe New York Times Book Review
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